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Page 28
... keeping him at schools where he gets nothing but habits of distaste for 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 ...
... keeping him at schools where he gets nothing but habits of distaste for 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 ...
Page 29
... keep up with the improve- ment and progress of the age . Of doctors and apothecaries , who even lose their recollection of technical words ; of lawyers , who have no books , and spend their time in debauchery ; of judges , who read ...
... keep up with the improve- ment and progress of the age . Of doctors and apothecaries , who even lose their recollection of technical words ; of lawyers , who have no books , and spend their time in debauchery ; of judges , who read ...
Page 32
... keep him in a college , with expensive teachers and costly appliances for years , to acquire a profession which he may or may not pursue as he chooses , or which he may not have brains enough to follow , when the persons from whom this ...
... keep him in a college , with expensive teachers and costly appliances for years , to acquire a profession which he may or may not pursue as he chooses , or which he may not have brains enough to follow , when the persons from whom this ...
Page 50
... keeping them there till they are twenty- one years old ; teaching them the beauties of morality and the pursuits of religion : man must first be civilized and disciplined in the religion of supplying his own personal wants . To ac ...
... keeping them there till they are twenty- one years old ; teaching them the beauties of morality and the pursuits of religion : man must first be civilized and disciplined in the religion of supplying his own personal wants . To ac ...
Page 51
... keep out of the streets , away from temptation , bad company , and evil examples ; refresh him by wholesome keep and exercise ; train him in the ways of mental reflection and useful knowledge ; and by the time he is thirteen or fourteen ...
... keep out of the streets , away from temptation , bad company , and evil examples ; refresh him by wholesome keep and exercise ; train him in the ways of mental reflection and useful knowledge ; and by the time he is thirteen or fourteen ...
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