. Austin Hall, or, Conversations between a father and his children, on subjects of amusements and instruction . 06 AUSTIN CHAPTER VII. FRIDAY EVENING. Florence. Mamma, I have been endeavouring to use theattracting power of the magnet all day to collect mythoughts: Miss Fanshaw says I have not been so steadyfor a long time. Mrs. v^ustin. For her sake, as well as yours, I am gladof it; for I have often admired the patient good humourwith which she awaits your return from your flights offancy. This over vivacity must be still more tiresome toa teacher than absolute dulness. I Avish you wou
. Austin Hall, or, Conversations between a father and his children, on subjects of amusements and instruction . 06 AUSTIN CHAPTER VII. FRIDAY EVENING. Florence. Mamma, I have been endeavouring to use theattracting power of the magnet all day to collect mythoughts: Miss Fanshaw says I have not been so steadyfor a long time. Mrs. v^ustin. For her sake, as well as yours, I am gladof it; for I have often admired the patient good humourwith which she awaits your return from your flights offancy. This over vivacity must be still more tiresome toa teacher than absolute dulness. I Avish you would learnto confine your attention to understanding and applyingexactly what she explains to you, instead of endeavouringto devise what yoit think some compendious method ofyour own, v/hich leads you into error, and, after repeatedtrials, great waste of time and ingenuity, occasions so much AUSTIN HALL. 97 disgust, that you get out of temper, and give up the point,declaring you dont see the use of the higher rules ofarithmetic, or why, in your musical exercises, you shouldwrite the same stupid things over and over again in
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