The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL. D. ... Eleven Volumes in Two..., Volume 1Edwards & Bushnell, 1857 |
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... Idea of a seminary on a large scale . School furniture - Apparatus and Museum- systematic sets of engravings . Description of a new Optical Diagonal Machine , with figures , suggestions to engravers on this subject . Beneficial effects ...
... Idea of a seminary on a large scale . School furniture - Apparatus and Museum- systematic sets of engravings . Description of a new Optical Diagonal Machine , with figures , suggestions to engravers on this subject . Beneficial effects ...
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... idea how to shoot , And pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind , " the great objects which education ought to promote have been miserably neglected . A farrago of words has been substituted in the place of things ; the elements of ...
... idea how to shoot , And pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind , " the great objects which education ought to promote have been miserably neglected . A farrago of words has been substituted in the place of things ; the elements of ...
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... idea to the understanding of the nature of the truths repeated - while the catechumens seemed to be much gratified ... ideas , so it frequently happens , that a disrelish for religion and its services is in- duced , in consequence of the ...
... idea to the understanding of the nature of the truths repeated - while the catechumens seemed to be much gratified ... ideas , so it frequently happens , that a disrelish for religion and its services is in- duced , in consequence of the ...
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... idea to any of the answers they re- peat . They are soon after , perhaps before they are seven years of age , introduced to the study of English grammar ; and , after feeling much apathy and not a little disgust at this abstract science ...
... idea to any of the answers they re- peat . They are soon after , perhaps before they are seven years of age , introduced to the study of English grammar ; and , after feeling much apathy and not a little disgust at this abstract science ...
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... ideas ought to form the great object of all instruction - that the young , at an early age , are capable of being the ... idea on the subject . especially in the abstract and superficial manner in which it is taught in our common schools ...
... ideas ought to form the great object of all instruction - that the young , at an early age , are capable of being the ... idea on the subject . especially in the abstract and superficial manner in which it is taught in our common schools ...
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