 They have little time to spare for education. -Their parents can scarce afford to maintain them even in infancy. As soon as they are able to work, they must apply to some trade by which they can earn their subsistence. That trade too is generally so simple...  The works of Thomas Chalmers - Page 170by Thomas Chalmers - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...they may have acquired some taste in the earlier part of life. It is otherwise with the common people. They have little time to spare for education. -Their...less inclination to apply to, or even to think of anything else. But though the common people cannot, in any civilized society, be so well instructed... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 506 pages
...they may have acquired some taste in the earlier part of life. It is otherwise with the common people. They have little time to spare for education. Their...less inclination to apply to, or even to think of anything else. But though the common people cannot, in any civilized society, be so well instructed... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 pages
...requires the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune. The common people have little time to spare for education. Their parents...less inclination to apply to, or even to think of anything else."* " An instructed and intelligent people, besides," as is farther observed by the same... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 pages
...requires the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune. The common people have little time to spare for education. Their parents...less inclination to apply to, or even to think of anything else."* " An instructed and intelligent people, besides," as is farther observed by the same... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 pages
...requires the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune. The common people have little time to spare for education. Their parents...less inclination to apply to, or even to think of anything else."* " An instructed and intelligent people, besides," as is farther observed by the same... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...them to the public esteem, or render them worthy of it. ... It is otherwise with the common people. They have little time to spare for education. Their...less inclination, to apply to, or even to think of, anything else."* With respect to the objects to which the instruction of the lower orders should be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...them to the public esteem, or render them worthy of it. ... It is otherwise with the common people. They have little time to spare for education. Their...less inclination, to apply to, or even to think of, anything else."* With respect to the objects to which the instruction of the lower orders should be... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 pages
...and uniform, as to give little exercise to the understanding ; while, at the same time, their labor is both so constant and so severe, that it leaves...inclination to apply to, or even to think of any thing else. * * * For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 pages
...and uniform, as to give little exercise to the understanding; while, at the same time, their labor is both so constant and so severe, that it leaves...inclination to apply to, or even to think of any thing else. * * * For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1868 - 930 pages
...and uniform, as to give little exercise to the understanding ; while, at the same time, their labor is both so constant and so severe, that it leaves...inclination to apply to, or even to think of any thing else. * * * For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost... | |
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