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... feel and use their power for bad as well as for honest purposes . Perhaps there is too much expected from education . All men know by observation and experience , that honest labor is productive , and hence some are led to infer that an ...
... feel and use their power for bad as well as for honest purposes . Perhaps there is too much expected from education . All men know by observation and experience , that honest labor is productive , and hence some are led to infer that an ...
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... feeling of parental kindness , the benevolent spirit of aid and protection by a wise and righteous government . Beyond this limit the tax for , and the expenses of a free school should not go . None but the children of persons too poor ...
... feeling of parental kindness , the benevolent spirit of aid and protection by a wise and righteous government . Beyond this limit the tax for , and the expenses of a free school should not go . None but the children of persons too poor ...
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... feel ashamed of , nor was he ashamed of his origin . There is no lack of these pupils from the free schools of mind and industry , all over the country ; none such from the free schools of extortion are now recollected . Perhaps the ...
... feel ashamed of , nor was he ashamed of his origin . There is no lack of these pupils from the free schools of mind and industry , all over the country ; none such from the free schools of extortion are now recollected . Perhaps the ...
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... feeling and sufficiently appreciating the true nature and character of this mental exer- cise , is most difficult and perplexing . It would seem to require the necessary and practical presence of both the faculties of understanding and ...
... feeling and sufficiently appreciating the true nature and character of this mental exer- cise , is most difficult and perplexing . It would seem to require the necessary and practical presence of both the faculties of understanding and ...
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... feel are clear and distinct ; but the power to feel was gone : nothing but necessity will bring it into practical activity . It is the " art and mystery " to be learned by the apprentice in every trade and pursuit , the capacity to feel ...
... feel are clear and distinct ; but the power to feel was gone : nothing but necessity will bring it into practical activity . It is the " art and mystery " to be learned by the apprentice in every trade and pursuit , the capacity to feel ...
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