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... means to learn how to read and study for himself . The Sunday Schools , Free Schools , and other schools , now embrace almost the entire infant population , and the next age will , perhaps , show a race of men superior in intelligence ...
... means to learn how to read and study for himself . The Sunday Schools , Free Schools , and other schools , now embrace almost the entire infant population , and the next age will , perhaps , show a race of men superior in intelligence ...
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... means of starting their sons in their own professions with the advantages of their ex- perience , credit , character and customers , as they could do if their boys were brought up for and began their father's busi- ness . And hence such ...
... means of starting their sons in their own professions with the advantages of their ex- perience , credit , character and customers , as they could do if their boys were brought up for and began their father's busi- ness . And hence such ...
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... means who has the spirit of a man , would humiliate himself by sending his child to a free school any more than he would send him to a soup - house to get his dinner gratis . By this system , children are too often kept at these schools ...
... means who has the spirit of a man , would humiliate himself by sending his child to a free school any more than he would send him to a soup - house to get his dinner gratis . By this system , children are too often kept at these schools ...
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... means requires talents of the highest order . It is still more important that they should be convinced that the great merit , and the great success , of those who have attained to eminence in such matters , was al- most entirely due to ...
... means requires talents of the highest order . It is still more important that they should be convinced that the great merit , and the great success , of those who have attained to eminence in such matters , was al- most entirely due to ...
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... means for research ; and excuse our ignorance by affectations of contempt for learning . So that the imperious occasions for a suitable and appro- priate education , in all these fundamental branches of know- ledge , within the age of ...
... means for research ; and excuse our ignorance by affectations of contempt for learning . So that the imperious occasions for a suitable and appro- priate education , in all these fundamental branches of know- ledge , within the age of ...
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