The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL. D. ... Eleven Volumes in Two..., Volume 1Edwards & Bushnell, 1857 |
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... intellectual pursuits be induced -- what should be the grand object of education , CHAPTER I. PRESENT STATE OF EDUCATION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES . Education during the dark ages - erection of colleges - era of the Reformation and the ...
... intellectual pursuits be induced -- what should be the grand object of education , CHAPTER I. PRESENT STATE OF EDUCATION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES . Education during the dark ages - erection of colleges - era of the Reformation and the ...
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... INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION . · Number of schools requisite to be established in Scotland and England . Importance of such institutions , and the necessity for philanthropic exertions . Liberality under the Jewish economy . Enormous sums ...
... INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION . · Number of schools requisite to be established in Scotland and England . Importance of such institutions , and the necessity for philanthropic exertions . Liberality under the Jewish economy . Enormous sums ...
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... intellectual energies of the human race into any other channel than that in which they have hith- erto been accustomed to flow . Such insinua- tions evidently flow from a spirit of misan- thropy , and are intended , if possible , to fix ...
... intellectual energies of the human race into any other channel than that in which they have hith- erto been accustomed to flow . Such insinua- tions evidently flow from a spirit of misan- thropy , and are intended , if possible , to fix ...
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... intellectual improvement becomes an object of general attention . And , even in those nations which have advanced farthest in the path of science and of social refinement , the cultivation of the human mind , and the details of educa ...
... intellectual improvement becomes an object of general attention . And , even in those nations which have advanced farthest in the path of science and of social refinement , the cultivation of the human mind , and the details of educa ...
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... intellectual pleasures . And , if this is the case in a nation designated civil- ized and enlightened , how thick must be the darkness which broods over the inhabitants of other regions of the globe , how deep the moral debasement into ...
... intellectual pleasures . And , if this is the case in a nation designated civil- ized and enlightened , how thick must be the darkness which broods over the inhabitants of other regions of the globe , how deep the moral debasement into ...
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