He had thus early learned the lesson of self-control; for his mother tells us that having smallpox at this age he bore his disease bravely, "like a man and indeed like a Christian, without any complaint, though he seemed angry at the smallpox when they were sore, as we guessed by his looking sourly at them".

Then Sir Samuel sent a detachment out of the fort, and set fire to the king's divan and to the surrounding huts to teach the people a lesson for their treachery.

Being very anxious that they should not lose anything from Miss Townsend's absence, she gave them lessons every day.

So he at once took lessons at a night school, and worked hard at self-education.

The Colonel read the lessons, Mac prayed, and they all sang, particularly O'Flynn.

In the seventh century, ferial Offices received three lessons.

What for?" "To study my lessons and help get the breakfast.

Once he had fought a lynx in a trap, and he had not forgotten the lesson the battle had taught him.

His rule was founded on the fear of punishment, and the sceptre which he wielded was a small black note-book, in which he entered the names of all offenders with an accompanying "Hundred lines, Brown!" or "Write the lesson out after school, Smith."

And like pupils in a class who recite their lesson, they all murmured that such a course as that is madness.

" My friends, these may seem deep words to somedoubtless they are, for they are the words of the Bibleso deep that plain, unlearned people can make no use of them, and draw no lesson from them.

I got my first lesson in diplomatic politeness from Lord Lyons, then British ambassador in Paris.

When do you wish to begin your lessons in Astronomy? D. Next week.

I know no better lesson for the instruction of a prince than is afforded by the actions and example of the Dukefor, if the measures he adopted did not succeed, it was not his fault, but rather owing to the extreme perversity of fortune.

It is the sweetness of the lips, which, as the wise man telleth us, increaseth learning; disposing a man to hear lessons of good doctrine, rendering him capable to understand them, insinuating and impressing them upon the mind; the affections being thereby unlocked, the passage becomes open to the reason.

They might study in their rooms, provided their marks for the preceding week were satisfactory, but those who fell below a certain percentage were sentenced to prepare their lessons in the study hall under the eye of a teacher.

To this period belongs the well-known incidentwhen one day Mr. Wesley said to his wife while engaged in repeating a lesson to a dull child, "I wonder at your patience: you have told that child twenty times that same thing," and the mother replied"Had I satisfied myself by mentioning the matter only nineteen times, I should have lost all my labour; you see, it was the twentieth time that crowned the whole.

Miss Leigh very willingly sat to the harpsichord; upon which her audience decamped to the adjoining room, and left her to play over three or four lessons to herself.

Don Juan can only be credited with a text in the sense in which every large experience, of its own accord, conveys its lesson.

Pestalozzi's object-lesson was adopted by Wilderspin and thoroughly sterilised; many teachers still remember the lessons on the orange, leather, camphor, paper, sugar, in which the teacher's senses were trained, for only she came in contact with the object, and the children from their galleries answered questions on an object remote from most of their senses, and only dimly visible to their eyes.

About the time of St. Gregory, (died 604) the Office for Matins was divided into three parts or nocturns, each having lessons.

I now began to learn very fast, for when I said my lesson well, I was always rewarded with some pretty story of my mother's childhood; and these stories generally contained some little hints that were instructive to me, and which I greatly stood in want of; for, between improper indulgence and neglect, I had many faulty ways.

And I have, besides, a melancholy story to tell thee, in relation to Belton and his Thomasine; and which may afford a lesson to all the keeping-class.

At any moment Annabel might finish her Sunday School lesson and come out upon the lawnall his self-possession vanished like a puff of smoke.

Such sketches as that of the hardships which country folk suffer in winter, contrasted with the thoughtless gayety of city revelers, and inculcating the lesson of sympathy, are precisely in the vein that sentimentalism encouraged.