 | Harry Grove Wheat - 1923 - 364 דפים
..."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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1974 - 516 דפים
...hornbooks were heing made of gingerbread. In 1721, Matthew Prior wrote: 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. About 1746, three-fold cards began to be printed by Benjamin Collins of Salisbury, an assistant of... | |
 | Mary V. Jackson - 1989 - 324 דפים
...Prior described an inducement to learning that Newbery would make famous: To Master John the ENGLISH Maid A Horn-book gives of Ginger-bread: And that the...can name, He eats the letter: Proceeding thus with vast Delight, He spells, and gnaws, from Left to Right.21 This was exactly the program Gaffer Gingerbread... | |
 | Mary Abbott - 1993 - 254 דפים
...Lancaster's technique was not original; gingerbread alphabets were sold in the eighteenth century: And that the child may learn the better As he can name, he eats the letter. Fathers also played an active part. Anthony Trollope's father tested his rote learning of Greek and... | |
 | Robert Kroetsch - 2001 - 132 דפים
...of horn. — The Canadian Oxford Dictionary (1998) To Master John the English Maid A horn-book giues of gingerbread, And that the child may learn the better. As he can name, he eats the letter. — M ATTHEW PRIOR No object can be seen, no shadow. The picture's optical framework, made by light,... | |
 | Vicki Anderson - 2014 - 274 דפים
...have proven eminently satisfactory to the student: To master John the English maid A horn book give of gingerbread; And that the child may learn the better As he can name, he eats the letter. In England at some fairs and in bakeries, gingerbread hornbooks were made and sold even though they... | |
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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. 
