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... frauds by certain and abundant scru- tiny . Nostrums , astrologers , pedagogues , demagogues , quack doctors , pettifogging lawyers , corrupt and ignorant judges , to which add dram - shops , monopolies , and gambling , have defiled the ...
... frauds by certain and abundant scru- tiny . Nostrums , astrologers , pedagogues , demagogues , quack doctors , pettifogging lawyers , corrupt and ignorant judges , to which add dram - shops , monopolies , and gambling , have defiled the ...
Page 30
... fraudulent to suffer its per- version to the accommodation of individual advantage , or to theoretical notions of general philanthropy . Because the people of Pennsylvania , for example , gratui- tously consent to tax themselves for the ...
... fraudulent to suffer its per- version to the accommodation of individual advantage , or to theoretical notions of general philanthropy . Because the people of Pennsylvania , for example , gratui- tously consent to tax themselves for the ...
Page 31
... fraud of supporting colleges for the education of the poor , and to be told by these very paupers and their in- fatuated advocates , that the door is open for all children to walk into and be taught . It is an artful subterfuge for ...
... fraud of supporting colleges for the education of the poor , and to be told by these very paupers and their in- fatuated advocates , that the door is open for all children to walk into and be taught . It is an artful subterfuge for ...
Page 32
... fraud upon the public . If a boy has genius and is taught how to read and write , he will not be held in . His mind will vault up into the spheres of knowledge . He will acquire learning without being made a pauper to obtain it . There ...
... fraud upon the public . If a boy has genius and is taught how to read and write , he will not be held in . His mind will vault up into the spheres of knowledge . He will acquire learning without being made a pauper to obtain it . There ...
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... frauds that signalized the black and diabolical career of the chartered monopolies of 1836 and '40 ; in which more crime was committed than has been perpetrated by all the convicts in the United States since the Revolution . It is said ...
... frauds that signalized the black and diabolical career of the chartered monopolies of 1836 and '40 ; in which more crime was committed than has been perpetrated by all the convicts in the United States since the Revolution . It is said ...
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