53 Metaphors for lessons

The purpose of Professor Marcks' essay is to prove on historical and scientific lines the lessons which have been taught in German schools for nearly half a century, i.e., England is an astute but ruthless robber who respects no right, and no nation which stands in her way.

The lessons of God which he learnt at his mother's knee may be still a lamp to his feet and a light to his path.

Our lesson for to-day was Faith, Hope, and Charity; as I read the last word I looked down, and there was my own Charity peeping at me from out my pocket.

The first lesson the backwoodsmen learnt was the necessity of self-help; the next, that such a community could only thrive if all joined in helping one another.

The lesson is thisto look into the meaning of our familiar words, and to try to use them with a real meaning.

The great lesson we learn by this extreme contrast of conditions supplied to us by nature, as if to enable us to solve some of her problems, is, the overwhelming importance, first, of a dense and well-compacted surface, due to water-action and strong gravitative force; secondly, of a more or less general coat of vegetation; and, thirdly, of a dense vapour-laden atmosphere.

Seeing this the class ceased whispering, but the white mother's faithful teachings went unheeded, and she saw the lesson was a failure.

Our grammar lessons are the hardest of any we have.

Indeed, the moral lesson of the tragedy of Germany is the demoralizing influence of organization carried to the nth power.

Not all men can read all books; it is only in a chosen few that any man will find his appointed food; and the fittest lessons are the most palatable, and make themselves welcome to the mind.

The great Lesson is Æquanimity, a Regularity of Spirit, which is a little above Chearfulness and below Mirth.

My music lessons in Milford were my only task.

They not only read it, but commit to memory portions of it every day:the first lesson in the morning is an examination on some passage of scripture.

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The lessons of the past are the teachings of the future.

the fairy stories best beloved are those steeped in meaningthe unfathomable meaning of life ... such stories teacheven though no lesson was intendedthe wisdom of the Book of Job: wisdom that by this time surely should have made religious teaching saner, and therefore more acceptable.

Although at this séance Delsarte appeared disposed to efface himself in favor of his brilliant representative, he kindly consented to speak a few words (and what a charming French lesson was his causerie!) and to present a specimen of his pantomimic powers.

The first lesson should be pure development, which is to get every idea from the children relative to the object before you.

Yes, the real lesson of Christmas is the ever presence of the absent through love; the ghostly, that is to say the spiritual, nature of all human intercourse.

We had no kindergartens; the idea that lessons were play had not come in; to us lessons were work, and hard work.

His first lesson was quite a success.

From the 14th January until the first Saturday in Lent, from Monday to Wednesday in Trinity week, from the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi until the Saturday before Advent, the short lesson is "Dominus autem" (II.

B. I am very often asked what I learn at the Sabbath school, and I sometimes answer that I learn what there is in the Bible, and that my lessons are subjects derived principally from that book.

Don't you remember the lesson that Franco taught us, that to return good for evil was good policy as well as good morals?" "Well, what would you do, Jonas?"

I have no faith in the permanence of any form of civilization, or of any government, where a certain depth of infamy and depravity is reached; because the impressive lesson of history is that righteousness exalteth a nation, and iniquity brings it low.

53 Metaphors for  lessons