The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1823 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 18
... reason , than was ever felt by the successful champion on the plains of Olympia or in the circus of antient Rome . As another objection to our public schools , properly so called , many parents have lately urged the increased and ...
... reason , than was ever felt by the successful champion on the plains of Olympia or in the circus of antient Rome . As another objection to our public schools , properly so called , many parents have lately urged the increased and ...
Page 315
... reason , or ex- plain the abstract principle , of what it declares ; but merely states the practice of the best writers in the language ; and has been fixed and established upon their authority . It will , indeed , often appear to have ...
... reason , or ex- plain the abstract principle , of what it declares ; but merely states the practice of the best writers in the language ; and has been fixed and established upon their authority . It will , indeed , often appear to have ...
Page 316
... reason to complain , that , while the Latin tongue is every where taught and extensively understood , a critical know- ledge of the Greek is confined to a few of our most distinguished scholars . The former language , is indeed , more ...
... reason to complain , that , while the Latin tongue is every where taught and extensively understood , a critical know- ledge of the Greek is confined to a few of our most distinguished scholars . The former language , is indeed , more ...
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