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... thing to be announced in placards , and stand up , like showmen , before an audience of strangers . Yet , surely , if some useful or elevating theme has been well treated , and a little kindness has been done to a man's neighbours at ...
... thing to be announced in placards , and stand up , like showmen , before an audience of strangers . Yet , surely , if some useful or elevating theme has been well treated , and a little kindness has been done to a man's neighbours at ...
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... thing , as I must think it , of ascending Mont Blanc ; but , having gone up and come down again , he did the very right thing of recounting his adventures to an audience who can never hope to see the Alps , and to whom some talk about ...
... thing , as I must think it , of ascending Mont Blanc ; but , having gone up and come down again , he did the very right thing of recounting his adventures to an audience who can never hope to see the Alps , and to whom some talk about ...
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... thing to sit still and declaim against bad men who corrupt while they pro- fess to enlighten . Far better will it be for those , who have many advantages for communicating know- ledge of a more healthful kind , to bestir themselves ...
... thing to sit still and declaim against bad men who corrupt while they pro- fess to enlighten . Far better will it be for those , who have many advantages for communicating know- ledge of a more healthful kind , to bestir themselves ...
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... thing is certain , that we have only half - done our work , or rather not half- done it , when we have provided Schools and Teachers in abundance for the children of the poor . There is a wide field beyond for those who choose to enter ...
... thing is certain , that we have only half - done our work , or rather not half- done it , when we have provided Schools and Teachers in abundance for the children of the poor . There is a wide field beyond for those who choose to enter ...
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... things already well known . I will finish this preface with a word also to my younger hearers , and to those who may not have given this subject their attention . Any reduction of a portion of the mind's employment to rules and order is ...
... things already well known . I will finish this preface with a word also to my younger hearers , and to those who may not have given this subject their attention . Any reduction of a portion of the mind's employment to rules and order is ...
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