 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1887 - 494 pages
...always great. every species of property ; to every transaction of trade and commerce ; to the labors of the husbandman ; to the ingenuity of the artificer...else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is rivetted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life.... | |
 | Charles Davies - Science - 1871 - 394 pages
...knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learnt by those who learn nothing else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is rivetted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life.... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1887 - 506 pages
...philosopher ; to the researches of the antiquarian ; to the navigation of the mariucr, au-.l the inarches of the soldier ; to all the exchanges of peace, and...else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is rivetted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life.... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1887 - 492 pages
...peace, and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the flrst elements of education, and is often learned by those...else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is rivetted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life.... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1976 - 320 pages
...John Quincy Adams made this observation. "The knowledge of them (weights and measures or measurement), as in established use, is among the first elements...write. This knowledge is riveted in the memory by habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life." I think this remains as the... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1971 - 326 pages
...knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learnt by those who learn nothing else, not even to read and write. This knowledge is rivetted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life.... | |
 | 1922 - 452 pages
...knowledge of them,. as in established use. is among the first elements of education, and is oftenlearned by those who learn nothing else, not even to read...in the memory by the habitual application of it to theemployments of men throughout life. Every individual, or at least every family, has the weights... | |
 | Agriculture - 1939 - 460 pages
...the soldier, to all the exchanges of peace and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them as an established use is among the first elements of education...is often learned by those who learn nothing else. This knowledge is etched into the memory by the habitual application of it in the employments of men... | |
 | Agriculture - 1939 - 460 pages
...the soldier, to all the exchanges of peace and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them as an established use is among the first elements of education...is often learned by those who learn nothing else. This knowledge is etched into the memory by the habitual application of it in the employments of men... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1959 - 182 pages
...knowledge of them as established in use" — (and I want to emphasize that phrase "as established in use") — "is among the first elements of education,...by those who learn nothing else, not even to read or write. This knowledge is riveted in the habitual application of it to the employment of men throughout... | |
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... studies of the philosopher ; to the researches of the antiquarian ; to the navigation of the mariner, and the marches of the soldier ; to all the exchanges of peace, and all the operations of war. The knowledge of them, as in established use, is among... 
