The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay: to which the Manchester Prize War Adjudged |
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... intellectual power , more practical and sound sentiment , and greater compactness of argument , than any of its competitors . The publication of such an Essay will , in their judgment , effectually promote the cause of Popular Education ...
... intellectual power , more practical and sound sentiment , and greater compactness of argument , than any of its competitors . The publication of such an Essay will , in their judgment , effectually promote the cause of Popular Education ...
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... intellectual nature , though feebly developed , cannot be extinguished . It is now , at least , earnestly awake . These deserve our respect . They glorify our country . They are the People ! The Folk ! The Nation ! Speak of Estates ...
... intellectual nature , though feebly developed , cannot be extinguished . It is now , at least , earnestly awake . These deserve our respect . They glorify our country . They are the People ! The Folk ! The Nation ! Speak of Estates ...
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... intellectual labour , a lower for a higher sphere ? Is one of our race to be kept down ? The benevolent view of man is that which anticipates and attempts his mental and moral elevation . It mourns his present condition . It does not ...
... intellectual labour , a lower for a higher sphere ? Is one of our race to be kept down ? The benevolent view of man is that which anticipates and attempts his mental and moral elevation . It mourns his present condition . It does not ...
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... intellectual develop- ment . Mind acts upon mind with a necessary force . This effect must be proportioned to proximity and collision . Both these influences are in operation in the supposed case . Men throng upon each other , and the ...
... intellectual develop- ment . Mind acts upon mind with a necessary force . This effect must be proportioned to proximity and collision . Both these influences are in operation in the supposed case . Men throng upon each other , and the ...
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... intellectual development . They ally themselves with genuine science . They lay open the wonders of the vast laboratory of earth . They seem most necessarily attentive to the moral of the seasons . But we have to discourse of facts . We ...
... intellectual development . They ally themselves with genuine science . They lay open the wonders of the vast laboratory of earth . They seem most necessarily attentive to the moral of the seasons . But we have to discourse of facts . We ...
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