Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 4, 2025
"If the secret variances of a large class of ordinary fathers were brought to light, and laid down as a plan of studies and reading, catalogued for a moral education, they would run somewhat after this fashion: In the first hour 'pure morality must be read to the child, either by myself or the tutor; in the second, 'mixed morality, or that which may be applied to one's own advantage; in the third, 'do you not see that your father does so and so? in the fourth, 'you are little, and this is only fit for grown-up people; in the fifth, 'the chief matter is that you should succeed in the world, and become something in the state; in the sixth, 'not the temporary, but the eternal, determines the worth of a man; in the seventh, 'therefore rather suffer injustice, and be kind; in the eighth, 'but defend yourself bravely if any one attack you; in the ninth, 'do not make a noise, dear child; in the tenth, 'a boy must not sit so quiet; in the eleventh, 'you must obey your parents better; in the twelfth, 'and educate yourself. So by the hourly change of his principles, the father conceals their untenableness and onesidedness.
For he saith that Charles hearing of the suppression of K. Richard, sent 2 of his houshold knights into England, requiring king Henrie the fourth, then newlie made king, to send home his daughter Isabell, latelie married vnto king Richard, with such dowrie as with hir was promised. But to remit this and the like variances among writers to such as can reconcile them, let vs returne to the storie.
The habitual sword-crossing between her and Wilfrid was naturally regarded as their mode of growing endeared to each other; their intellectual variances could not, by a sober gentleman of eight-and-forty and by a young widow whose interest in the world was reviving, be regarded as a bar to matrimony.
The unfortunate variances with Sparta, and the still more lamentable invocation of Macedonian interference in the Peloponnesus, had so completely subjected the Achaean league to Macedonian supremacy, that the chief fortresses of the country thenceforward received Macedonian garrisons, and the oath of fidelity to Philip was annually taken there. Sparta, Elis, Messene
Word Of The Day
Others Looking