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... pursuits and public wel- fare of the people . Knowledge is power to the bad as well as to the good . If Napoleon had never known how to read , the career of his great genius might have been confined to piratical cruises on the Levant ...
... pursuits and public wel- fare of the people . Knowledge is power to the bad as well as to the good . If Napoleon had never known how to read , the career of his great genius might have been confined to piratical cruises on the Levant ...
Page 28
... pursuits and in the professions . Apothecaries , chemists , teachers , doctors , lawyers , public officers , by favor , presumption , and trick , are permitted to begin without adequate preparation . They , therefore , abandon all ...
... pursuits and in the professions . Apothecaries , chemists , teachers , doctors , lawyers , public officers , by favor , presumption , and trick , are permitted to begin without adequate preparation . They , therefore , abandon all ...
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... pursuit ; all that is necessary , and certainly all that is reasonable to require the public to pay for in any country , much more in the United States , where every man who has his health should be able by his own earnings to educate ...
... pursuit ; all that is necessary , and certainly all that is reasonable to require the public to pay for in any country , much more in the United States , where every man who has his health should be able by his own earnings to educate ...
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... pursuit , such as navigation , surveying , mechanics , & c . , and for the mere purpose of education , is wholly ... pursuits , the dupes of their own ingenuity and of the popular voice , to convince both them and the public that the ...
... pursuit , such as navigation , surveying , mechanics , & c . , and for the mere purpose of education , is wholly ... pursuits , the dupes of their own ingenuity and of the popular voice , to convince both them and the public that the ...
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... pursuits of life would produce a race of ignorant , sordid serfs ; and to bring them all up in schools , would turn them out to scramble amongst each other for the common wants of life , amidst perilous excitements and crime . The ...
... pursuits of life would produce a race of ignorant , sordid serfs ; and to bring them all up in schools , would turn them out to scramble amongst each other for the common wants of life , amidst perilous excitements and crime . The ...
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