The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL. D. ... Eleven Volumes in Two..., Volume 1Edwards & Bushnell, 1857 |
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... feel such a revolting exercise ! -The consequence of this absurd practice is , that , instead of exciting desires for further acquisitions in learning , -in a majority of instances , we produce a disgust to every species of mental ...
... feel such a revolting exercise ! -The consequence of this absurd practice is , that , instead of exciting desires for further acquisitions in learning , -in a majority of instances , we produce a disgust to every species of mental ...
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... feel in such themes and discussions ? I appeal to every one of my readers , if , at the age now specified , they ever understood such selections , or felt gratified and improved by perusing them . It is an absurdity , at once ...
... feel in such themes and discussions ? I appeal to every one of my readers , if , at the age now specified , they ever understood such selections , or felt gratified and improved by perusing them . It is an absurdity , at once ...
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... feel an aversion to devoted to instruction tedious and unpleasant , school , and require to be driven to it as slaves and to make the school partake something of to their task - work , or as culprits to a jail ? the nature of a jail ...
... feel an aversion to devoted to instruction tedious and unpleasant , school , and require to be driven to it as slaves and to make the school partake something of to their task - work , or as culprits to a jail ? the nature of a jail ...
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... feel indignant at the epithets , the threaten- ings , and the blustering , with which they are so frequently assailed , and must also feel that injustice is done them , when every trivial fault and oversight is magnified into a crime ...
... feel indignant at the epithets , the threaten- ings , and the blustering , with which they are so frequently assailed , and must also feel that injustice is done them , when every trivial fault and oversight is magnified into a crime ...
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... feels a want - that feel- ing opens its lips , and makes it seize and greedily suck the nourishing breast of its mother . At this period its eyes are generally dull and languid ; it seems to keep them fixed and idle ; they want that ...
... feels a want - that feel- ing opens its lips , and makes it seize and greedily suck the nourishing breast of its mother . At this period its eyes are generally dull and languid ; it seems to keep them fixed and idle ; they want that ...
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