Extracts from Various Authors, and Fragments of Table-talk: Afternoons at L******** ...E.B. Gardner, 1873 - 150 pages |
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... natural sciences ; forming therefrom methodical kinds of exercises , calculated at the same time to divert and instruct . *** Sound education can never be made a course of mere amusement . It must be by labor that we teach youth to love ...
... natural sciences ; forming therefrom methodical kinds of exercises , calculated at the same time to divert and instruct . *** Sound education can never be made a course of mere amusement . It must be by labor that we teach youth to love ...
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... natural indolence , is frequently averse to enquire into the circumstances which can alone form a sufficient ground for them . This is the most general cause of false opinions , which have not only pervaded Medicine , but almost every ...
... natural indolence , is frequently averse to enquire into the circumstances which can alone form a sufficient ground for them . This is the most general cause of false opinions , which have not only pervaded Medicine , but almost every ...
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... nature , unfit for such a purpose . Its principles are deduced from an immense mass of facts acquired by observation ; and either you must teach the principles without the facts on which they rest , in which case you give the pupil only ...
... nature , unfit for such a purpose . Its principles are deduced from an immense mass of facts acquired by observation ; and either you must teach the principles without the facts on which they rest , in which case you give the pupil only ...
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... Nature . * * * * I do not remember the precise words , ( Miss Martineau's , ) but they are to this effect , that it is important that whoever is engaged in the active pursuits of life should have a certain portion of the day in which he ...
... Nature . * * * * I do not remember the precise words , ( Miss Martineau's , ) but they are to this effect , that it is important that whoever is engaged in the active pursuits of life should have a certain portion of the day in which he ...
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... nature of the case , must be found in the over- whelming majority of human beings . What are called conventional manners and sentiments are , in fact , an essential part of the social apparatus . To all men , whatever may be their power ...
... nature of the case , must be found in the over- whelming majority of human beings . What are called conventional manners and sentiments are , in fact , an essential part of the social apparatus . To all men , whatever may be their power ...
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