The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... caufe of political reform , and the caufe of intellectual and literary refinement , are infeparably connect- ed . He has alfo defcended in his investiga tions into the humbler walks of private life . He ardently defires that thofe who ...
... caufe of political reform , and the caufe of intellectual and literary refinement , are infeparably connect- ed . He has alfo defcended in his investiga tions into the humbler walks of private life . He ardently defires that thofe who ...
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... caufe operating prior to their birth , is that we are fo little acquainted with the history of the early years of men of talents . Slight circumftances at firft determined their propenfitics to this or that purfuit . These cir ...
... caufe operating prior to their birth , is that we are fo little acquainted with the history of the early years of men of talents . Slight circumftances at firft determined their propenfitics to this or that purfuit . These cir ...
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... caufe and effects , remarks its internal ftructure , and confiders what would have been the refult , if its members had been combined in a different way , or fubjected to different influences . The man of genius gains a whole magazine ...
... caufe and effects , remarks its internal ftructure , and confiders what would have been the refult , if its members had been combined in a different way , or fubjected to different influences . The man of genius gains a whole magazine ...
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... caufe of the young against the adult . There are certain modes of education eftablished in fociety ; thefe are open to our in- fpection ; we may inveftigate them with accu- racy racy and minuteness . The hypothetical modes which appear ...
... caufe of the young against the adult . There are certain modes of education eftablished in fociety ; thefe are open to our in- fpection ; we may inveftigate them with accu- racy racy and minuteness . The hypothetical modes which appear ...
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... with powers of reafoning , with fenfations of pleafure and pain , and with principles of morality ; and that in this defcrip- tion tion is contained abundant caufe for the exercise of reverence 88 Part I. Of Cohabitation .
... with powers of reafoning , with fenfations of pleafure and pain , and with principles of morality ; and that in this defcrip- tion tion is contained abundant caufe for the exercise of reverence 88 Part I. Of Cohabitation .
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