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Page 35
... encourage their possessors to insult modest worth . They pervert the legitimate purposes of knowledge and refinement from useful benevolence to selfish ostentation . Education should imbue the heart with humility , instead of arrogance ...
... encourage their possessors to insult modest worth . They pervert the legitimate purposes of knowledge and refinement from useful benevolence to selfish ostentation . Education should imbue the heart with humility , instead of arrogance ...
Page 52
... encourage every individual , between the age five and twenty - one years , to adopt the plan now proposed for spending his minority . of The well educated and independent nobleman first described has had his preparations for an ...
... encourage every individual , between the age five and twenty - one years , to adopt the plan now proposed for spending his minority . of The well educated and independent nobleman first described has had his preparations for an ...
Page 54
... encouragement given to their skill and industry ; all this serves to increase and cheapen the necessaries of life ... encourage their increase , and they should be pre- vented by restraining the propensity to educate too many and too ...
... encouragement given to their skill and industry ; all this serves to increase and cheapen the necessaries of life ... encourage their increase , and they should be pre- vented by restraining the propensity to educate too many and too ...
Page 55
... encourage these conservative measures of self - protection against drones and vagabonds . Magistrates and guardians of the poor have the power , and it is their duty , to arrest all beggars , gamblers , prostitutes , vaga- bonds ...
... encourage these conservative measures of self - protection against drones and vagabonds . Magistrates and guardians of the poor have the power , and it is their duty , to arrest all beggars , gamblers , prostitutes , vaga- bonds ...
Page 58
... encouraged to abscond , cheat their masters out of the balance of their time , and set up for themselves , but half learned . Hence the swarms of lazy , extravagant , and bad workmen all over the country . They live too freely , and ...
... encouraged to abscond , cheat their masters out of the balance of their time , and set up for themselves , but half learned . Hence the swarms of lazy , extravagant , and bad workmen all over the country . They live too freely , and ...
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