Lectures on History, and General Policy: To which is Prefixed, An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active LifePearson and Rollason, 1788 - 548 стор. |
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... fhall be happy if the scenes which I may bring to your recollection give you as much fatisfaction as they do me . For I never experience greater , than when I find young men of ability formed to virtue , and usefulness in life , under ...
... fhall be happy if the scenes which I may bring to your recollection give you as much fatisfaction as they do me . For I never experience greater , than when I find young men of ability formed to virtue , and usefulness in life , under ...
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... fhall , without any farther apology , propofe to my fellow - citizens , and fellow - tutors , hoping that it will meet with a candid reception . It is true , I can boaft no long or extenfive experience in the business of education , but ...
... fhall , without any farther apology , propofe to my fellow - citizens , and fellow - tutors , hoping that it will meet with a candid reception . It is true , I can boaft no long or extenfive experience in the business of education , but ...
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... fhall not go over the particulars of the courfe in this place : let the fyllabus speak for itself . Let it only be obferved , that my view was , not merely to make history intelligible to perfons who may chufe to read it for their ...
... fhall not go over the particulars of the courfe in this place : let the fyllabus speak for itself . Let it only be obferved , that my view was , not merely to make history intelligible to perfons who may chufe to read it for their ...
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... fhall have little more occafion for it than other gentlemen , or than perfons in common life , when they have left the univerfity ? And how can it be otherwife , but that their private reading and studies should fometimes be different ...
... fhall have little more occafion for it than other gentlemen , or than perfons in common life , when they have left the univerfity ? And how can it be otherwife , but that their private reading and studies should fometimes be different ...
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... fhall handle the fubject in the most judicious manner . Young gentlemen defigned for the learned profeffions need not be put upon these exercises , or reading all the authors referred to . It may be fufficient for them to attend the ...
... fhall handle the fubject in the most judicious manner . Young gentlemen defigned for the learned profeffions need not be put upon these exercises , or reading all the authors referred to . It may be fufficient for them to attend the ...
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