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... obtained by a knowledge of the rudiments of learning will improve both the morals and understanding , and arm the mind against the seductions of sin and ignorance . No man in the United States can plead the want of means to learn how to ...
... obtained by a knowledge of the rudiments of learning will improve both the morals and understanding , and arm the mind against the seductions of sin and ignorance . No man in the United States can plead the want of means to learn how to ...
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... obtain a foothold , and often fail in the severe and trying experiment . There is no objection to the education of every man , but the error lies in expecting too much from it , in the supposition that it can make mind or create genius ...
... obtain a foothold , and often fail in the severe and trying experiment . There is no objection to the education of every man , but the error lies in expecting too much from it , in the supposition that it can make mind or create genius ...
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... obtain it . There are more men perhaps in the United States , who have been educated in the schools in proportion to the number of their inhabitants , than in any other country . And notwith . 1 standing this , almost all of their ...
... obtain it . There are more men perhaps in the United States , who have been educated in the schools in proportion to the number of their inhabitants , than in any other country . And notwith . 1 standing this , almost all of their ...
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... obtained in schools , practical instruction . in the business to be pursued for a living in after life , temper- ance and patient industry . Without these elements of knowledge and self - constraint , there can be no useful education ...
... obtained in schools , practical instruction . in the business to be pursued for a living in after life , temper- ance and patient industry . Without these elements of knowledge and self - constraint , there can be no useful education ...
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... obtained within that period of life , or they will , per- haps , never be acquired . The exceptions to this rule are so rare , and the facility with which genius seems to overcome the obstacles of ignorance and condition are so ...
... obtained within that period of life , or they will , per- haps , never be acquired . The exceptions to this rule are so rare , and the facility with which genius seems to overcome the obstacles of ignorance and condition are so ...
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