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Page vi
... virtue and for knowledge . The early hours of youth are invaluable , and fhould be conftantly improved ; not always , indeed , in a direct manner , and with a profeffed aim at improvement ; yet always as really , and as effectually , as ...
... virtue and for knowledge . The early hours of youth are invaluable , and fhould be conftantly improved ; not always , indeed , in a direct manner , and with a profeffed aim at improvement ; yet always as really , and as effectually , as ...
Page viii
... virtues , particularly inde- fatigable industry in the cultivation of the minds of their offspring , continued longeft to flourish . Cornelia , mother of the Gracchi ; Aurelia , of Julius Cæfar ; and Accia , of Auguftus , fuperin ...
... virtues , particularly inde- fatigable industry in the cultivation of the minds of their offspring , continued longeft to flourish . Cornelia , mother of the Gracchi ; Aurelia , of Julius Cæfar ; and Accia , of Auguftus , fuperin ...
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... virtue , taste , and learning , in the infant bofoms of their own offspring ? " Pitiable , indeed , is the mother , if fhe deferves the name , who knows not that fuch an office has fweets beyond the effence of perfumes , the giddy whirl ...
... virtue , taste , and learning , in the infant bofoms of their own offspring ? " Pitiable , indeed , is the mother , if fhe deferves the name , who knows not that fuch an office has fweets beyond the effence of perfumes , the giddy whirl ...
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... , and your example in virtue . " Charge to the Grand Jury at Brecon and Carmarthen Affizes , August 1805 . + Lord Chief Justice Kenyon . See Equality , Index . the the questions in each may be worked , with the PREFACE . xiii.
... , and your example in virtue . " Charge to the Grand Jury at Brecon and Carmarthen Affizes , August 1805 . + Lord Chief Justice Kenyon . See Equality , Index . the the questions in each may be worked , with the PREFACE . xiii.
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... virtue . " Directions to Teachers and Parents for felecting and ufing the best elementary books on every fubject . MONTHLY PRECEPTOR , Vol . vi . p . 154 . " The great utility of Arithmetical Exercifes , and the drynefs which attends ...
... virtue . " Directions to Teachers and Parents for felecting and ufing the best elementary books on every fubject . MONTHLY PRECEPTOR , Vol . vi . p . 154 . " The great utility of Arithmetical Exercifes , and the drynefs which attends ...
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