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Page 29
... persons in all the relations re- ferred to , who never read or study , or 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 ...
... persons in all the relations re- ferred to , who never read or study , or 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 ...
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... persons from whom this tax is impertinently extorted cannot afford thus to teach their own children . A common school for all to go to can no more be forced upon the people of the United States , than a common church . The poor school ...
... persons from whom this tax is impertinently extorted cannot afford thus to teach their own children . A common school for all to go to can no more be forced upon the people of the United States , than a common church . The poor school ...
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... persons , from five to twenty - one years of age , and turning them upon the world in multitudes , for employment and subsistence as mere scholars . 5. Whether schooling up to the age of twenty - one years improves the morals . 6. And ...
... persons , from five to twenty - one years of age , and turning them upon the world in multitudes , for employment and subsistence as mere scholars . 5. Whether schooling up to the age of twenty - one years improves the morals . 6. And ...
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... persons after " instruction " has been given to them . The Legislature have power to " establish schools " for instructing of " the poor gratis ; " but they have no power to " establish seminaries of learning , " of any description , to ...
... persons after " instruction " has been given to them . The Legislature have power to " establish schools " for instructing of " the poor gratis ; " but they have no power to " establish seminaries of learning , " of any description , to ...
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... persons was raised by a resolution of the legislature ( 7 Sm . L. , 451 , N. ) , to in- vestigate the causes of pauperism in the county of Philadelphia , who reported at a subsequent session , that they were unable to prosecute these ...
... persons was raised by a resolution of the legislature ( 7 Sm . L. , 451 , N. ) , to in- vestigate the causes of pauperism in the county of Philadelphia , who reported at a subsequent session , that they were unable to prosecute these ...
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