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... allowed to pass unnoticed , or is not followed by the infliction of the proper penalty . It is in all cases the certainty , and not the severity , of punish- ment which constitutes its power . Suppose one is not at the Beginning . What ...
... allowed to pass unnoticed , or is not followed by the infliction of the proper penalty . It is in all cases the certainty , and not the severity , of punish- ment which constitutes its power . Suppose one is not at the Beginning . What ...
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... allowing children to gain their ends by any particular means is really training them to the use of those means . Thus multitudes of children are taught to disobey , and trained to habits of insubmission and insubor- dination , by the ...
... allowing children to gain their ends by any particular means is really training them to the use of those means . Thus multitudes of children are taught to disobey , and trained to habits of insubmission and insubor- dination , by the ...
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... allowed to go alone . His mother , very weak and vacillating about some things , was extremely decided about this . So Egbert had learned to submit to this restriction , as he would have done to all others if his mother had been equally ...
... allowed to go alone . His mother , very weak and vacillating about some things , was extremely decided about this . So Egbert had learned to submit to this restriction , as he would have done to all others if his mother had been equally ...
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... allow you a fortnight to get cured . If you are not cured in a fortnight I shall think the punishment is not enough , or that it is not of a good kind ; but if it works so well as to cure you in a fort- night , then you shall have the ...
... allow you a fortnight to get cured . If you are not cured in a fortnight I shall think the punishment is not enough , or that it is not of a good kind ; but if it works so well as to cure you in a fort- night , then you shall have the ...
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... allow you a full hour to dress , " she said , " when half an hour is enough , may an- swer very well in respect to having you ready for break- fast , but it is no way to cure you of the fault . That would enable you to play half of the ...
... allow you a full hour to dress , " she said , " when half an hour is enough , may an- swer very well in respect to having you ready for break- fast , but it is no way to cure you of the fault . That would enable you to play half of the ...
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