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Democratic Education Stretched Thin - Page 11
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Connecticut: A Study of a Commonwealth-democracy

Alexander Johnston - History - 1887 - 452 pages
...court, in establishing a free-school system in 1644, had done so on the express ground that it was " one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures ; " and the selectmen of the towns were cautioned, as a fundamental part of education, to see to it...
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Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Volume 10

Education - 1889 - 758 pages
...educational code, which shows the solemnity with which they viewed the subject of education : "It being the chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures as in former times keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from...
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Luther on Education: Including a Historical Introduction, and a Translation ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1889 - 304 pages
...General Court of the Massachusetts colony passed the following order: " It being one chief object of the old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from...
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Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Issues 1-3

United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1890 - 958 pages
...educational code, which shows the solemnity with which they viewed the subject of education : " It being the chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures as in former times keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from...
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Contributions to American Educational History, Volume 9

Herbert Baxter Adams - Education - 1890 - 352 pages
...educational code, which shows the solemnity with which they viewed the subject of education : "It being the chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures as in former times keeping them jn an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from...
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Literary essays

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 416 pages
...Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children...
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Literary essays

James Russell Lowell - English drama - 1890 - 424 pages
...Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children...
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Literary Essays: New England two centuries ago. Carlyle. Swinburne's ...

James Russell Lowell - Literature - 1890 - 414 pages
...Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children...
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The Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 444 pages
...Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essays

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 418 pages
...Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children...
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