foster-nurse

It is the doctrine of original sin, of the congenital depravity of man's nature, which blocks the way to the reform of education, -- blocks the way to it by compelling education to become the destroying angel instead of the foster-nurse of the child's expanding life.

What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Edmond Holmes 1893

When Green Colin assassinated the laird and his household, the infant Donald was saved by his foster-nurse, and afterwards brought up by her husband, a blacksmith.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

There is means, madam: Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, the which he lacks; that to provoke in him are many simples operative, whose power will close

SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2011

"Florence, as _foster-nurse_, has cherished for the world the art-treasures of early centuries in Italy, so that there is no other city on earth in which we can learn so much of the 'revival of art,' as it is called, which took place after the barrenness of the

Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt

With them was an old servant, who was the husband of the young man’s foster-nurse.

More Translations from the Chinese Arthur Waley 1927