American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... perhaps must be gratified . Their theory , therefore , fosters agriculture , commerce , and the mechanic arts , and even the pursuits of science , polite and phy- sical , as subsidiary to the due promotion of these . So far they are ...
... perhaps must be gratified . Their theory , therefore , fosters agriculture , commerce , and the mechanic arts , and even the pursuits of science , polite and phy- sical , as subsidiary to the due promotion of these . So far they are ...
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... perhaps , but compared with the advancement of other things ; it is not loved , it is not followed , as it used to be ; -nay , I fear that at this moment it is barely in repute among us . I complain that education is not what it should ...
... perhaps , but compared with the advancement of other things ; it is not loved , it is not followed , as it used to be ; -nay , I fear that at this moment it is barely in repute among us . I complain that education is not what it should ...
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... perhaps with some justice , a subject of complaint in England , any evil from overstrained attention to the mere mechanical portions of a classic- al education . The mischief with us is of a contrary character . School - boys have not ...
... perhaps with some justice , a subject of complaint in England , any evil from overstrained attention to the mere mechanical portions of a classic- al education . The mischief with us is of a contrary character . School - boys have not ...
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... perhaps modern geography . He has no private tutor to direct his studies , but forms one of a class of twenty or thirty , as the case may be , with whom he has no necessary com- munication , except that they meet for recitation at a ...
... perhaps modern geography . He has no private tutor to direct his studies , but forms one of a class of twenty or thirty , as the case may be , with whom he has no necessary com- munication , except that they meet for recitation at a ...
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... perhaps be read in English as well as in his own language , but we do not now remember another author of either Greece or Rome of whom we can say the same , not even except- ing Vitruvius or Columella . The truth is , that translation ...
... perhaps be read in English as well as in his own language , but we do not now remember another author of either Greece or Rome of whom we can say the same , not even except- ing Vitruvius or Columella . The truth is , that translation ...
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