The second lesson in the course of training consisted of resting the right foot on a bar, which Ellen was compelled to hold in a horizontal line with her left hand.
I am glad I came hither this once: it will be a lessonfor me which I can never forget.
Illustration] Scarcely was this portion of the lesson accomplished, when steps were heard ascending the stairs; and immediately afterwards a heavy fist knocked with more violence than courtesy at the parlour door.
You know not the firmness of the female mind: perhaps I have this morning taught you a lesson in that respect.
No," I said hurriedly, repeating the lesson I had learned by rote, and in which Smith had not failed to practice me a dozen times that day.
I have learned my lesson from some who have fared farther and seen more than you, from men who have stood by their cause in foul weather as well as fair; and were not for mass one day and a sermon the next.
He spoke as if he were repeating a lesson and the master were present.
The new lesson which Jesus began to teach after the confession at Cæsarea Philippi marked the supreme turning point in his whole public activity.
If anything were needed to prove that the idea that he was the Messiah was no new thought to Jesus, it could be found in the new lesson which he at once began to teach his disciples.
This lesson of patience and expectancy is enforced in a group of parables preserved for us in Matthew (chap.
It may have been the shock which the new lesson had given the disciples that accounted for the reproof of their lack of faith.
He was no visionary; he had a great work to do and a long lesson to teach, and he was patient enough to teach it little by little.
That this new lesson was a difficult one for master as well as disciple seems to be shown by the experience which came a few days later to Jesus and his three closest friends.
In this rapid reaction from unbelief to faith the disciples seem to have forgotten the lesson of self-denial recently given them (Mark viii.
What a profound lesson there is in these words, and how strongly they set forth the motives for which a Christian should be modest.
It meant nothing out of the ordinary any more than a primary lesson on the circulatory system did, it was knowledge on nature in its purity and simplicity taught by mother, and hence caused no surprise.
The second lesson came with the question, "But where is the nest?
Illustration: Children should early be taught the lesson of Propriety and Good Manners.
It may have occupied months, but in time the lesson was fully understood.
But remember this is a lesson of life, it cannot be told in one chapter; it is as important as the lessons of love and duty.
The most important lessonto impart is obedience to authority as authority.
Irenaeus here endeavours to teach the bishop of Rome a lesson of humility by reminding him repeatedly that he and his predecessors were but presbyters.
We may thus infer that our Lord meant to convey a great moral lesson by the appointment alike of the Twelve and of the Seventy.
Señor Beruete wittily remarks that Los Borrachos (The Topers) of Velasquez is the truer anatomy lesson of the two.
Was not this, indeed, an object-lesson to England?
The activity of her secret agents in Berlin had surely been an object-lesson to the world.
The lesson of poor stricken Belgium cannot be too vividly brought home to such idiots as we have about us.
To while away an idle hour, she was taking a lesson in that tongue.
But the ladies were too busy with the water to bestow much thought on the jar, and L'Isle's lesson in vertu was pretty much lost on them.
I will find or make an occasion to give him a lesson he much needs.
They often teach no better lesson than 'Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die.
Then I will fix an early hour, and take a lesson every day.
If he has to deal much more with them, it will be a usefullesson to learn to wait.
But feeling a deep interest in you, I sincerely hope that you may gain one precious lesson through me.
If you do it successfully," said his companion, "I will be glad of a lesson from you in the art.
It was an exciting but rather terrible pleasure to see the wild creatures quarreling and growling and fighting over their dinners, and was also a most effective object lesson on greediness.
We’ve both learned the lesson and paid the price; we don’t want to make any more mistakes.
You must give time for thelesson to sink in; he’s dazed at present—like you.
But, when I found circumstances would keep me here, I resolved to work at it persistently and faithfully; and I learned in it the larger lesson of the true dignity of labor.
As for those who were living through the sad sweet lesson of loving and losing, time went on with them also.
One afternoon, while taking my lesson in reading, I mentioned this desire to Yoletta.
It is indeed a hard saying, and the hardest lesson we can learn of her without losing love and bidding good-by forever to hope.
I wish you would tell me how that came to pass," said I; "I should like to hear it very much, and it will be a lesson to Mary.
Tom replied very boldly, "that it was meant as a good lesson to the young man, that in future he did his own work, and did not trust to others.
I trust, sincerely trust, Jacob, that the severe lesson you are now about to receive will bring you to a sense of what is right, and that you will forget the evil counsel you have received from your late companions.
This was the first time in my life that I had known a day's sickness--it was a lesson I had yet to learn.
Many times afterwards, when the lesson was over, he would fix his eyes upon me, fall back on his chair, and make me recount all I could remember of my former life, which was really nothing but a record of perceptions and feelings.
And I took my first lessonthat day; and by dint of practice soon acquired that very necessary art.
George had proved for himself the most valuable lesson in Self-Reliance--that he could make his way alone.
If that is not a great lesson for the young, as well as for the old, then write me down as a soused gurnet.
His last item of public work was an object-lesson as to what the engineering skill of man can do.
My father had, however, got interested in teaching me, and only shifted the lesson to a week-day till he had conquered my wandering mind.
I was unfitted for school work, and though I would often work well for weeks together, I had to give the whole evening to one lesson if I was to know it.
When we had learned our lesson well, we were allowed to look at a sword presented to her father who had led troops in India or China and to spell out a long complimentary inscription on the silver scabbard.
Exaggerated accounts spread through the school, and sometimes when I did not know a lesson some master would banter me.
I had always a lesson to learn before night and that was a continual misery, for I could very rarely, with so much to remember, set my thoughts upon it and then only in fear.
I would know my Latin lesson so that it was a nine days' wonder, and for weeks after would be told it was scandalous to be so clever and so idle.
My father was still at Sligo when I came back from my first lesson and asked me what I had been taught.
It is a lesson inclusive of all other lessons; the hardest of all lessons to learn.
A second thing I know: This lesson will have to be learned,-- under penalties!
The latter was a matter of hourly observation, affording its lesson to the brothers, and readily explained by the older and more practical men.
Straw had given Forrest a list of brands and a classification of the cattle contributed, and a lesson in reading brands was given the boys.
The foreman delayed shortening the stirrup straps until after the horse stood saddled, when he adjusted the lacings as an object lesson to the boys.
He had learned the lesson that poverty teaches, unaware that the storm which rocks also roots the oak, but unable to make the comparison or draw the inference between surrounding nature and himself.
I hope this is the last lesson in winter herding; I fail to see any romance in it.
The boys are young and may take the lesson seriously, but you're wasting good breath on me.
The first storm of the winter had been met, and its one clear lesson lent a dread to any possible successors.
Even though the lesson was taught by a dumb animal, it was worth its cost.
Give me a week of frosty nights, and thelesson is yours.
The lesson of the day had filled empty hearts with happiness, and when darkness fell, the boys threw off all former reserve, and the bond of host and guest was firmly established.
Again the lessonthat contact teaches was accented anew.
Circumstances helped him: his last lesson was in a class-room whose door opened into the corridor where the clock hung and where the school porter, an alert ex-sergeant, rang the bell at stated intervals.
Sometimes Nadezhda came to the lesson to see how Misha was getting along.
He came very late to the one lesson he gave that day to the sixth form, remained there hardly more than five minutes and then went to his study without speaking to anyone.
Misha sighed lightly and went on with his work, but at the end of the lesson he had no desire to talk: he said he had no time and that he had much home work to do.
The great lesson regarding sin—its hatefulness in God’s eyes, and the certainty of its punishment—was continually renewed by the events of providence.
The monitorial system is practiced—one child hearing the other recite his lesson and assisting him to learn it.
After a general history and geology lesson we have essays on the subject of the evening from the older members, that are inspiring to the younger ones.
The lesson for the evening was a review of Grecian History, and was ably conducted by Mr. John A.
We shall learn this lessonagain in studying the caste education of India.
These members teach that part of the lesson on which they have prepared questions.
At Elkham, Wisconsin, local circle, the president appoints two or more members at each meeting to prepare questions on the lesson for the next week.
At the close of the lesson some minutes were passed in social intercourse, and then followed a comparison of the methods pursued in conducting the various circles present.
