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Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House - Page 90
by Michigan. Legislature - 1865
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Pamphlets on Social Reform and Religious Questions

1827 - 302 pages
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Connecticut Common School Journal and Annals of Education, Volumes 1-4

Henry Barnard - 1839 - 1066 pages
...BENEFITS OF BOOKS, AND ESPECIALLY TO THE GREAT MASS ОТ ТПЕ PEOPLE, — It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant...
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Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at ...

William Ellery Channing - 1838 - 90 pages
...run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant...
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Harrison's monthly collection [Formerly The monthly collection of tales. Ed ...

708 pages
...run one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser. New and improved ser, Volume 1

1839 - 648 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds ; and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked fr books! They are the voices of the distant...
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American Annals of Education, Volume 9

1839 - 636 pages
...of one family, alike immutable, universal and everlasting." p. 19-20. "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant...
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The Christian Teacher, Volume 1

1839 - 684 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and action to the end of life. " It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds ; and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant...
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The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII

The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pages
...we enjoy ii intercourse with superior minds ; and these invaluable means of communication are within the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give iis their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books ! They are...
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Rural Repository, Volume 16

1840 - 210 pages
...enjoy intereourse with superior minds, and these individual means of eommunieation are in the reaeh of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most preeious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voiees of...
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The Works of William E. Channing, D.D.

William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 424 pages
...one and the same dull round of thought and action to .the end of life. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and...great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant...
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