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Page 29
... industry , and integrity should every- where prevail . In the measures used to prevent these abuses , care should be taken not to run into the opposite extreme , by educating indis- criminately the whole mass of society . They should ...
... industry , and integrity should every- where prevail . In the measures used to prevent these abuses , care should be taken not to run into the opposite extreme , by educating indis- criminately the whole mass of society . They should ...
Page 31
... industry . In the devise made by Stephen Girard , for the education of " poor orphans , " provision is expressly made for their prepara- tion " for some suitable occupation , " and it is given upon the ex- press condition : That at ...
... industry . In the devise made by Stephen Girard , for the education of " poor orphans , " provision is expressly made for their prepara- tion " for some suitable occupation , " and it is given upon the ex- press condition : That at ...
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... industry are formed , 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 ...
... industry are formed , 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 ...
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... industry . Without these elements of knowledge and self - constraint , there can be no useful education . The work will be but half done , and the pupil will enter life just so far unprepared for its competitions , as the advantages ...
... industry . Without these elements of knowledge and self - constraint , there can be no useful education . The work will be but half done , and the pupil will enter life just so far unprepared for its competitions , as the advantages ...
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... 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 their ...
... 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 their ...
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