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" ... was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business. In Scotland the establishment of such parish schools has taught almost the whole common people to read, and a very great proportion of them to write and account.... "
On the Use and Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical Endowments - Page 175
by Thomas Chalmers - 1827 - 194 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 3

Adam Smith - 1809 - 514 pages
...encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education. The public can...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If, in those little schools, the books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 3

Adam Smith - 1811 - 520 pages
...encourage, andean even impose upon almost thewhole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education. The public can...though not so universally, because the establishment is r/ot so universal. If, in those little schools, the books by which the children are taught to read,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 3

Adam Smith - 1819 - 518 pages
...because if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business. Iu Scotland, the establishment of such parish schools...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If, in those little schools, the books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more...
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The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for ...

1847 - 372 pages
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy: Being Part of a Course Delivered ...

Richard Whately - 1831 - 282 pages
...encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education. " The public can...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If in those little schools the books, by which the children are taught to read, were a little more...
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The works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 17

Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 374 pages
...the world." — Smith's Wealth of Nations, Book V. Chapter I. part 3. Art. 2. NOTE B, page 41. It ia but justice to Dr Smith to notice, that he admits...affirms that, by means of such an establishment, that elementary education which is desirable for the common people, is diffused among them far more extensively...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...common people to read, and a very great proportion oí them to write and account. In Kngland, tfco establishment of charity schools has had an effect...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If, in those little schools, tie books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm ...

Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...schools has taught almost the whole common people to read, and a very great proportion of them VOL. v. o to write and account. In England the establishment...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If in those little schools the books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more instructive...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 4

Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 506 pages
...schools has taught almost the whole common people to read, and a very great proportion of them VOL. IV. O to write and account. In England the establishment...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If in those little schools the books by which the children are taught to read, were a little more instructive...
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy, Delivered at Oxford, in Easter ...

Richard Whately - 1847 - 348 pages
...very great proportion of them to write and account. In England the establishment of charity-schools has had an effect of the same kind, though not so...universally, because the establishment is not so universal. If in those little schools the books, by which the children are taught to read, were a little more...
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