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Page 85
... give the discipline of it through knowledge which will immediately bear on practical life . Our literary work has long been economically useless to us because too much concerned with dead languages ; and our scientific work will yet ...
... give the discipline of it through knowledge which will immediately bear on practical life . Our literary work has long been economically useless to us because too much concerned with dead languages ; and our scientific work will yet ...
Page 152
... give me a pound of bread to - day , Ĭ should return him less than a pound of bread to - morrow ; or any equitable reason in a man's being uneducated , that if he uses a certain quantity of skill and knowledge in my service , I should ...
... give me a pound of bread to - day , Ĭ should return him less than a pound of bread to - morrow ; or any equitable reason in a man's being uneducated , that if he uses a certain quantity of skill and knowledge in my service , I should ...
Page 242
... give a child an apple or a toy , you give him a determinate pleasure , but if you give him a penny , an indeterminate one , proportioned to the range of selection offered by the shops in the village . The power of the world's currency ...
... give a child an apple or a toy , you give him a determinate pleasure , but if you give him a penny , an indeterminate one , proportioned to the range of selection offered by the shops in the village . The power of the world's currency ...
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