Morality can only be taught by object-lessons; they err egregiously who would teach it by the card.
Even if he should try to teach the people by word of mouth, there will be bare benches unless he charges for admission, as all lecturers will tell you.
They teach their children what is best for them to know.
He's done more than anybody, alive or dead, to teach me to be interested in life--to make me happy.
He tried to teach Gulliver, the Leonards' Great Dane, to do German police-dog stunts.
Jack and Betty Teach were at breakfast in the kitchen, and Dred lay upon a bench, his head upon a coat rolled into a pillow.
He had not come up from the landing for his breakfast, and Betty Teach had sent something down to him by Jack—a big, cold roast yam, some corn bread, and a thick slice of bacon.
By the light of the lantern they saw that Captain Teach was sitting just where he had sat all the evening, gloomy and moody.
Betty Teach opened the door and stood waiting as they came up the pathway to the house.
At least I didn’t hear Captain Teachsay anything of the sort.
The question was directed at Blackbeard, and Jack and Betty Teach stood waiting breathlessly for the reply, but, in his sullen, evil humor, the pirate captain did not choose to answer.
Captain Teach went to bed a long while ago, and he sent her to take them away.
The pirate captain had gone to bed, but Dred and Morton still lingered in front of the fire, and Betty Teach was busy putting away the remains of the breakfast that had been standing on the table since midnight.
Betty Teach was talking, and they could hear the sound of her voice, trying to quiet her husband—then the sound of Blackbeard’s, more violent than ever.
Why then do you people here in the provinces put up with such a rascal as this Teach or Blackbeard or what-ye-call-him?
As the two visitors entered, Hands was in the act of filling his pipe with uncertain, tipsy fingers, and Captain Teach sat leaning upon the table, the lean, brown fingers of his hands locked around his glass.
They say that villain Teachhath been seen up in the James River.
And not only did the Teacher teach that prayer--He lived according to the light of it.
I have tried to teach you your duty to the baron and to society.
It was a plot to teach the masses Hindi, in order that they might be swept into the anti-British, anti-Mahometan current.
But common sense would teach every Westerner that a document so framed is at variance with the whole bent of the modern mind, and, if forced upon it, could only goad it into rebellion.
Some children, instead of being unwilling to learn what their parents desire to teach them, are so eager to learn, that they ingeniously contrive ways and means to teach themselves.
I do not suppose that he feels grateful to his father and mother for being willing to take so much pains to teach him, for he is not old enough for that.
He had taken so much pains to teach that one, and to tame him, that he had become quite attached to him individually, and he was very sure that he should never like any other one so well.
Sometimes a child, when his father and mother wish to teach him to walk, is not willing to learn.
He was glad to learn any thing that the boys were willing to teach him.
He knew how important it was to study arithmetic, but he had no one to teach him, and, besides that, he had no book, and no slate and pencil.
Since Josey is willing to learn, it gives his father and mother great pleasure to teach him.
When you are attempting to teach a dog any new art or accomplishment, it is a great thing to have him willing to learn.
He is glad that he is going to learn to walk, and that his parents are going to teach him.
I think that will teach you a wholesome lesson; and as punishment is intended to be reformatory, you ought to be grateful to me for deigning to administer it.
An old monkey, designing to teach his sons the advantage of unity, brought them a number of sticks, and desired them to see how easily they might be broken, one at a time.
This tale teaches a good quantity of lessons; but it does not teach why this fish should have persecuted this lamb.
If this fable does not teach that a rat gets no profit by lying, I should be pleased to know what it does teach.
One day he assembled a great multitude of them below his window, and commanded that each should appear in his presence, and all who could not teach him some important truth should be thrown off the walls and dashed to pieces.
Moreover, given a central experimental station with proper equipment, it would be an easy matter to train men to teach this knowledge to soldiers at every reconstruction camp.
The purpose of the Club will be to teach the science of Regeneration--to teachthem to "dare to be healthy" according to the laws and teachings of biology.
But biology and physiological chemistry teach that this is so--and prove it.
It will take some time before the general medical practitioner will realize the truth of this statement, because the old-school medicine does not teach these facts.
And how can they teach who are themselves untaught?
Indeed, I am told that right at the University of Chicago, though it is a Baptist institution, they teach this same silly twaddle of evolution, and I cannot advise any of you to go there for graduate work.
I don't know exactly how to say what I mean, papa, but I wish I could get this lovely afternoon, all full of sunshine and blue, into unity with all that you teach us about Jesus Christ.
And if Harry has not learned yet to care about the will of God, what is the good of coming down upon him that way, as if that would teach him in the least.
IX "I'll teach my boy the sweetest things: I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
I now perceive we do mistake our masters, And most despise the men who best can teach us: Henceforth it shall be said that bad men only Are brave: Clifford is brave; and that old Man Is brave.
If e'er I open out this heart of mine It shall be for a nobler end--to teach And not to purchase puling sympathy.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teachthe hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.
For twenty years before his death in 1839, he used to collect around him the ragged children of the district in which he lived, and teach them while he worked at his cobbling.
It is difficult to teacheven playfully or mimically in reconciliation with poetic effect: and the object is to wrestle with this difficulty.
The lady moved forward as though she would teach her at once.
He meant for the time being, but I never could teach him some phrases.
Mine are all milky; but Mrs. Vincey is going to teachme butter-making this summer.
Lastly, because she needed time to think on Philip's letter burning in her pocket, she signifies her pleasure to dance with 'em and teach 'em better manners.
I never could teachhim the difference betwixt Hurons and Senecas.
You who walk under Cold Iron, you must tell us and teach us.
One week have I tried to teach Gert Schwankfelder the difference between them, yet he cannot tell.
Leon: No, if you kiss a thousand I shall be contented, It will the better teach me how to please ye.
It was a determined and successful attempt, on the part of our society, to learn everything that the literary and artistic remains of our great predecessor could teach us.
The Greeks should teach us, once and for all, that the common affairs of mankind are matter to think about as well as to feel about.
Here those inherited principles, the result of previous ages of thought, concentrated within the child's mind, began to teach him, and he listened to their instruction at an early age.
With them the power to teach is the immediate gift of God, and they speak as they are moved by the Spirit, and what they say is by the inspiration of the inner light.
But let our imaginations transport us a few moments to Boston; that seat of wretchedness will teach us wisdom, and instruct us forever to renounce a power in whom we can have no trust.
That "high altar and castle of despotism" fell at the bidding of those republican principles which he had dedicated his life to teach and maintain.
I do this for two reasons: to let the reader see what high value is placed on Junius by the learned who teach eloquence by example, and also that he may see the object, method, and style of Junius.
That seat of wretchedness [speaking of Boston] will teach us wisdom and instruct us to forever renounce a power in whom we can have no trust.
I shall not need to teach you how to discredit their beginning, you know how to take exception at their shirts at washing, or to make the maids swear they found plasters in their beds.
Do thou teach me not only to foresee but to enjoy, nay even to feed on future praise.
The valour and the constancy with which that brave people have recovered and defended its liberty, would well deserve that some wise man should teach them how to preserve it.
When he fought a duel with Sir Charles Blount because she had conferred some favour on the latter, she swore “by God’s death it were fitting some one should take him down and teach him better manners, or there were no rule with him.
But obscurantist as Calvinism essentially was, the Calvinists, as a minority struggling for freedom to think and teach what they believed, represented for a time the cause of light and intellectual emancipation.
A fat major, with whom he was well acquainted, was trying one day to teach him a new trick.
Persons have tried to teach these little birds to sing with a hand-organ, but with little success, for even the flute cannot produce a sound so delicate as that uttered by the lips of a good whistler.
There are some who think that it will scourge men's souls clean of pettiness, teach them proportion, give them a larger outlook.
For that is the problem that is facing each nation at war--to make a whole life out of a fragment, to teach that the spirit may be greater than the body, to turn to usefulness these sad and hopeless by-products of battlefields.
The mother can have the younger one to help her in the house, and the priest can teach him to be a white man if he likes; but the other one goes with me, no school for him.
Civilisation has nothing to teach this man concerning clothing, house-building, or Arctic travel.
If ablutions seem to her a work of supererogation and our daily play of toothbrush furnishes all the fascination of the unknown, still hers is the right stuff for pioneer lands and she has lessons to teach us in pluck and endurance.
