The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL. D. ... Eleven Volumes in Two..., Volume 1Edwards & Bushnell, 1857 |
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... desire for knowledge , and the superior intelligence which characterize the different ranks of our population . When we compare ourselves in this respect with the Russian boors , the Laplanders , the Cal- mucs , the Cossacks , or the ...
... desire for knowledge , and the superior intelligence which characterize the different ranks of our population . When we compare ourselves in this respect with the Russian boors , the Laplanders , the Cal- mucs , the Cossacks , or the ...
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... desire for improvement . Before the seven years ' war , there had scarcely ever been more than one periodical journal or gazette published in Silesia at one time ; but in 1801 , there were no less than seventeen newspapers and maga ...
... desire for improvement . Before the seven years ' war , there had scarcely ever been more than one periodical journal or gazette published in Silesia at one time ; but in 1801 , there were no less than seventeen newspapers and maga ...
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... desire of improvement in the method of teaching was showing itself among the teachers . " When we consider that the education of youth in this country is com- mitted chiefly to monks , we may rest satis- fied , that , in general , its ...
... desire of improvement in the method of teaching was showing itself among the teachers . " When we consider that the education of youth in this country is com- mitted chiefly to monks , we may rest satis- fied , that , in general , its ...
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... desire for activity , and must feel , like all hundred tongues assailing him on every side ; other animals , when they are confined to un- and wherever such noisy turbulence daily pre- natural attitudes , and cramped in their move ...
... desire for activity , and must feel , like all hundred tongues assailing him on every side ; other animals , when they are confined to un- and wherever such noisy turbulence daily pre- natural attitudes , and cramped in their move ...
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... desire or aversion . By insensible degrees it learns to see and to hear to mark the difference between one sound and another , and between one object of vision and another - to distinguish the form and countenance of its mother from ...
... desire or aversion . By insensible degrees it learns to see and to hear to mark the difference between one sound and another , and between one object of vision and another - to distinguish the form and countenance of its mother from ...
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