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... 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 education must produce similar results . This ...
... 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 education must produce similar results . This ...
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... honest labor . There is not one man in ten thousand who has vigor of in- tellect sufficient for a learned profession . Give children suffi- cient schooling suited for their intended occupations , and set them to work . If they have ...
... honest labor . There is not one man in ten thousand who has vigor of in- tellect sufficient for a learned profession . Give children suffi- cient schooling suited for their intended occupations , and set them to work . If they have ...
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... honest livings and lay the founda- tions for future habits of industry . the ex- In the devise made by Stephen Girard , for the education of " poor orphans , " provision is expressly made for their prepara- tion " for some suitable ...
... honest livings and lay the founda- tions for future habits of industry . the ex- In the devise made by Stephen Girard , for the education of " poor orphans , " provision is expressly made for their prepara- tion " for some suitable ...
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... honest industry ; they are not ignorant of their rights , or backward in demanding them ; they have had no occasion to complain ; nor have they ever found fault with the benevolent solicitude bestowed by the Poor House Guardians upon ...
... honest industry ; they are not ignorant of their rights , or backward in demanding them ; they have had no occasion to complain ; nor have they ever found fault with the benevolent solicitude bestowed by the Poor House Guardians upon ...
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... honest and useful employment ; because , if he will not support him- self , his subsistence must come out of the earnings of those who do work ; and every meal he eats diminishes the stock of subsistence , and increases the labor of ...
... honest and useful employment ; because , if he will not support him- self , his subsistence must come out of the earnings of those who do work ; and every meal he eats diminishes the stock of subsistence , and increases the labor of ...
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