Evening recreations; or, Samples from the lecture room [by various authors] ed. by J.H. Gurney |
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... better schools , than we had a few years ago ; and readers and books are greatly multiplied ; and an impulse has been given to popular education which puts the generation now growing up far in advance of the preceding one as to ...
... better schools , than we had a few years ago ; and readers and books are greatly multiplied ; and an impulse has been given to popular education which puts the generation now growing up far in advance of the preceding one as to ...
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... better audience than I have sometimes found crowding a village school- room to hear a tale , for an hour and more , about Luther , or Columbus , or Joan of Arc , or Sir Isaac Newton ; and if they knew little besides the glorious names ...
... better audience than I have sometimes found crowding a village school- room to hear a tale , for an hour and more , about Luther , or Columbus , or Joan of Arc , or Sir Isaac Newton ; and if they knew little besides the glorious names ...
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... branch of knowledge , or their sympathies drawn towards some noble specimen of humanity , an evening thus spent is better than the common dinner party , where men fare sumptuously , converse languidly , and meet xii PREFACE .
... branch of knowledge , or their sympathies drawn towards some noble specimen of humanity , an evening thus spent is better than the common dinner party , where men fare sumptuously , converse languidly , and meet xii PREFACE .
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... better . The fact is , that all of us , Laymen and Clergymen alike , need to feel much more that our gifts , and leisure , and facilities for acquiring and imparting know- ledge , are not our own , but belong to God and our country , if ...
... better . The fact is , that all of us , Laymen and Clergymen alike , need to feel much more that our gifts , and leisure , and facilities for acquiring and imparting know- ledge , are not our own , but belong to God and our country , if ...
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... better will it be for those , who have many advantages for communicating know- ledge of a more healthful kind , to bestir themselves , and to do what they can to provide better fare nearer home . If the composition of a lecture , well ...
... better will it be for those , who have many advantages for communicating know- ledge of a more healthful kind , to bestir themselves , and to do what they can to provide better fare nearer home . If the composition of a lecture , well ...
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