 | 1916 - 666 sivua
...England is best described in rhyme. 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 cats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right. Another... | |
 | Junius Lathrop Meriam - 1920 - 560 sivua
...them ! This procedure is described by an English writer : 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.1 The New England Primer was itself a device. "... | |
 | Junius Lathrop Meriam - 1920 - 560 sivua
...them ! This procedure is described by an English writer : To Master John the English maid A horn book gives of gingerbread. And that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eaU the letter, Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right.1 The New... | |
 | 1921 - 706 sivua
...gentry. Even these, however, fade in charm beside the ginger-bread horn-books of which it was written: And that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. It remains only to mention bottlebooks which are as rare as fish that climb trees. These curiosities... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 sivua
...sum of sixty-five pounds. In Prior's Alma, the English maid gives Master John a gingerbread hornbook. 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. (Canto //) Tickell gives a humorous account... | |
 | Harry Grove Wheat - 1923 - 364 sivua
..."gingerbread method," which has been described as follows: 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.1 Every school was to be supplied with a bakeshop... | |
 | Willis Lemon Uhl - 1924 - 408 sivua
...method of learning to read was described as follows by Matthew Prior : l To Master John the English maid A horn-book gives of gingerbread And that the...can name, he eats the letter, Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right. Among other ameliorative forms of content used... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson - 1926 - 612 sivua
...finger-prints. There were also arrangements with letters made of ginger-bread. " To Master John, the English maid, A Horn-book gives of Ginger-bread, And that...learn the better, As he can name he eats the letter." See History of the Horn-Book, Andrew W. Tuer (1897), and Watson, op. at., pp. 169173. Horn-books remained... | |
 | Walter Taylor Field - 1928 - 304 sivua
...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 of... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1914 - 364 sivua
...MAGAZINE PLAYS FOR SENSE PERCEPTION. MRS." JW CHURCH, Coronado Beach, Calif. "To Master John, the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name be eats each letter ; Proceeding thus with vast delight He spells and gnaws from left to right." Prior... | |
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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. 
