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... learned to be straightforward , and to give up the tricks and wiles which they had acquired from their native mothers ; and Dr Bell conceived the large ambition " to alter the character of a race of men . " Dr Bell now started an ...
... learned to be straightforward , and to give up the tricks and wiles which they had acquired from their native mothers ; and Dr Bell conceived the large ambition " to alter the character of a race of men . " Dr Bell now started an ...
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... my female friends , that you could only hire so dear a house , and keep a carriage , with a view to fascinate some coy damsel . " Major Wight , another friend , wrote to warn him against what he calls " learned ladies . 32 LIFE OF DR BELL .
... my female friends , that you could only hire so dear a house , and keep a carriage , with a view to fascinate some coy damsel . " Major Wight , another friend , wrote to warn him against what he calls " learned ladies . 32 LIFE OF DR BELL .
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John Miller Dow Meiklejohn. warn him against what he calls " learned ladies . " " They are " in Major Wight's opinion , " most gen- erally deficient in that delicacy and correctness which render a woman most truly amiable . " These ...
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn. warn him against what he calls " learned ladies . " " They are " in Major Wight's opinion , " most gen- erally deficient in that delicacy and correctness which render a woman most truly amiable . " These ...
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... plans into one of the disorderly local schools was , he says , " like magic ; order and regu- larity started up all at once . In half an hour more was learned , and far better , than had been done DR BELL AS A COUNTRY PARSON . 35.
... plans into one of the disorderly local schools was , he says , " like magic ; order and regu- larity started up all at once . In half an hour more was learned , and far better , than had been done DR BELL AS A COUNTRY PARSON . 35.
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John Miller Dow Meiklejohn. learned , and far better , than had been done the whole day before . A class which could only get one line to a lesson a fortnight ago , now gets eight : and all say their lessons well , and come on in like ...
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn. learned , and far better , than had been done the whole day before . A class which could only get one line to a lesson a fortnight ago , now gets eight : and all say their lessons well , and come on in like ...
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