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Page 15
... give offence to many , and please but few . However , this does not at all discourage me , for I want not sufficient resolution to bear testimony to the truth . " - PLINY , B. V. L. 8 . PHILADELPHIA : GETZ & BUCK , No. 3 HART'S BUILDING ...
... give offence to many , and please but few . However , this does not at all discourage me , for I want not sufficient resolution to bear testimony to the truth . " - PLINY , B. V. L. 8 . PHILADELPHIA : GETZ & BUCK , No. 3 HART'S BUILDING ...
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... give additional strength to a weak mind - on the contrary it inflates the vain , magnifies fools and dunces , and misleads the ignorant . A mere quack can be shunned , but it is extremely difficult to guard against the imposition of ...
... give additional strength to a weak mind - on the contrary it inflates the vain , magnifies fools and dunces , and misleads the ignorant . A mere quack can be shunned , but it is extremely difficult to guard against the imposition of ...
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... Give children suffi- cient schooling suited for their intended occupations , and set them to work . If they have mental faculties above this sphere , their indications of thought and mind will soon be de- veloped . They will be quiet ...
... Give children suffi- cient schooling suited for their intended occupations , and set them to work . If they have mental faculties above this sphere , their indications of thought and mind will soon be de- veloped . They will be quiet ...
Page 32
... give it to him , and that if he does not know how to read , that his neighbors shall work and earn money to school him longer and better than they school their own children , or shall pay to keep him in a college , with expensive ...
... give it to him , and that if he does not know how to read , that his neighbors shall work and earn money to school him longer and better than they school their own children , or shall pay to keep him in a college , with expensive ...
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... gives him a disrelish and contempt for labor , and makes him an idle leech , neither an independent , respectable working man , nor with the caste which is looked for in one who has been educated . He is generally a drone or a vagabond ...
... gives him a disrelish and contempt for labor , and makes him an idle leech , neither an independent , respectable working man , nor with the caste which is looked for in one who has been educated . He is generally a drone or a vagabond ...
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