The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... fufficiently obvious . They are prefented to the contemplative reader , not as dicta , but as the materials of thinking . They are committed to his mercy . In themselves they are trivial ; the hints of en- quiry rather than actual ...
... fufficiently obvious . They are prefented to the contemplative reader , not as dicta , but as the materials of thinking . They are committed to his mercy . In themselves they are trivial ; the hints of en- quiry rather than actual ...
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... fufficiently at- tended to , that men are often effentially bene- fited by proceffes , through which they have themselves never actually paffed , but which have been performed by their companions and con- temporaries . The literary ...
... fufficiently at- tended to , that men are often effentially bene- fited by proceffes , through which they have themselves never actually paffed , but which have been performed by their companions and con- temporaries . The literary ...
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... fufficiently establish the utility of claf- fical learning ; it remains to be determined whe- ther it is necessary that it should form a part of the education of youth . It may be alleged , that , if it be a defirable acquifition , it ...
... fufficiently establish the utility of claf- fical learning ; it remains to be determined whe- ther it is necessary that it should form a part of the education of youth . It may be alleged , that , if it be a defirable acquifition , it ...
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... fufficiently anfwer this purpose . Is it not poffible to find something that will ful- fil thefe conditions , the benefit of which a child fhall understand , and the acquisition of which he may be taught to defire ? Study with desire is ...
... fufficiently anfwer this purpose . Is it not poffible to find something that will ful- fil thefe conditions , the benefit of which a child fhall understand , and the acquisition of which he may be taught to defire ? Study with desire is ...
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... and conduct their diligence , but not fo as to fuperfede in them the exercise of their own difcretion . objects . objects . It is fufficiently competent to answer the purposes Effay IX . Of the Communication of Knowledge . 79.
... and conduct their diligence , but not fo as to fuperfede in them the exercise of their own difcretion . objects . objects . It is fufficiently competent to answer the purposes Effay IX . Of the Communication of Knowledge . 79.
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