 | 1903 - 504 Seiten
...them. They consisted of the alphabet only and recall the lines of Prior: To master John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread, And that the...learn the better As he can name, he eats the letter. These are still made and sold in Belgium, Holland, and other parts of Europe. The very commonest kind... | |
 | John Ashton - 1904 - 202 Seiten
...educational biscuits of the present day ; for Matthew Prior, in his Alma says : ' To Master John, the English maid A horn-book gives, of gingerbread ; And, that...learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.' It was made with honey, before the introduction of sugar, and must be of remote antiquity and intimately... | |
 | Walter Taylor Field - 1907 - 298 Seiten
...described by Prior in his poem, "Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind" (1718). "To Master John the English maid A horn-book gives, of gingerbread ; And that...child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats each letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right." This form... | |
 | Walter Taylor Field - 1907 - 392 Seiten
...Progress of the Mind" (1718). "To Master John the English maid A horn-book gives, of ginger bread; And that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats each letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells and gnaws from left to right." This form... | |
 | Otto Daniel - 1908 - 106 Seiten
...butter call." "All." I, S, 9). Prior spottet über die Preisverteilung: "To master John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread And, that the...the better, As he can name, he eats. the letter". "Alma" 985ff.). Thomson's Verse: "To Nature's vast Lyceum, forth they walk; By that kind School where... | |
 | Edmund Burke Huey - 1908 - 506 Seiten
...gingerbread method, described as follows by Matthew Prior:1 — "To Master John the English maid A horn book gives of gingerbread, And that the child may learn...can name he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right." Basedow (1723-1790), who taught that the child... | |
 | Edmund Burke Huey - 1922 - 500 Seiten
...gingerbread method, described as follows by Matthew Prior:1 — "To Master John the English maid A horn book gives of gingerbread, And that the child may learn...can name he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right." Basedow (1723-1790), who taught that the child... | |
 | Edmund Burke Huey - 1908 - 560 Seiten
...method, described as follows by Matthew Prior : 1 — "To Master John the English maid A horn book gives of gingerbread, And that the child may learn...can name he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right." Basedow (1723-1790), who taught that the child... | |
 | Edmund Burke Huey - 1908 - 300 Seiten
...method, described as follows by Matthew Prior : 1 — "To Master John the English maid A horn book gives of gingerbread, And that the child may learn...can name he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right." Basedow (1723-1790), who taught that the child... | |
 | Rudolph Rex Reeder - 1909 - 284 Seiten
...Philanthropinum, Bernard Basedow. Prior says : "To master John the English maid A horn-book gives of ginger bread; And that the child may learn the better As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right." Basedow said: "The children must have breakfast,... | |
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To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. 
