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... Schools 306 309 XXXVI . The Philadelphia Infant Schools , State of the 313 XXXVII . Reminiscences on the Subject of Intemperance XXXVIII . CONTENTS .
... Schools 306 309 XXXVI . The Philadelphia Infant Schools , State of the 313 XXXVII . Reminiscences on the Subject of Intemperance XXXVIII . CONTENTS .
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... Schools 463 464 LVIII . Memorial to the Legislature of Pennsylvania the same sub- ject 464 LIGHT READING - MISCELLANEOUS SCRAPS . 1. On the Absurdity of Baptising Children with Names too Common 2. On Titles of Books 329 331 4. On the ...
... Schools 463 464 LVIII . Memorial to the Legislature of Pennsylvania the same sub- ject 464 LIGHT READING - MISCELLANEOUS SCRAPS . 1. On the Absurdity of Baptising Children with Names too Common 2. On Titles of Books 329 331 4. On the ...
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... School 356 49. A Correct Style and Judicious Criticism 357 51. A Curious Question 50. Newspaper Scurrility 52. Idiocy , Extent of , in Barcelona 357 358 358 53. A Mountain of Salt 358 54. Leprosy , Extent of , in Spain 358 55 ...
... School 356 49. A Correct Style and Judicious Criticism 357 51. A Curious Question 50. Newspaper Scurrility 52. Idiocy , Extent of , in Barcelona 357 358 358 53. A Mountain of Salt 358 54. Leprosy , Extent of , in Spain 358 55 ...
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... schools , and education generally ; for the support of or- phan houses ; for the widows ' asylum , the asylum for the deaf and dumb , and for the Magdalens ; for the house of refuge ; for the abolition of slavery ; for colonization ...
... schools , and education generally ; for the support of or- phan houses ; for the widows ' asylum , the asylum for the deaf and dumb , and for the Magdalens ; for the house of refuge ; for the abolition of slavery ; for colonization ...
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... school ; to prevail on such of them as have the means , to deposite their earnings in the saving fund ; and to provide supplies of the necessaries of life to be sold to the poor at wholesale rates , with merely such an advance as would ...
... school ; to prevail on such of them as have the means , to deposite their earnings in the saving fund ; and to provide supplies of the necessaries of life to be sold to the poor at wholesale rates , with merely such an advance as would ...
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Page 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Page 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Page 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.