Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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Page viii
... Mr. William Ellis , edited by the Dean of Hereford , is entitled Lessons on the Phenomena of Industrial Life and the Conditions of Industrial Success . ' hour , conducted by a most intelligent teacher , was viii Preface .
... Mr. William Ellis , edited by the Dean of Hereford , is entitled Lessons on the Phenomena of Industrial Life and the Conditions of Industrial Success . ' hour , conducted by a most intelligent teacher , was viii Preface .
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Charles Knight. hour , conducted by a most intelligent teacher , was gone through without any previous knowledge having been acquired by the scholars from books . We have reserved for a future chapter " On the Necessity for Elementary ...
Charles Knight. hour , conducted by a most intelligent teacher , was gone through without any previous knowledge having been acquired by the scholars from books . We have reserved for a future chapter " On the Necessity for Elementary ...
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... hours . " Having enjoyed the benefits which he had bestowed , they would , as just men , have paid the debt which they had incurred , and the exchange would have been completed . Immediately that they had quitted his shores , Selkirk ...
... hours . " Having enjoyed the benefits which he had bestowed , they would , as just men , have paid the debt which they had incurred , and the exchange would have been completed . Immediately that they had quitted his shores , Selkirk ...
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... hour in the evening , I returned from my hunt , they could not tell what had become of him . I left the camp about the middle of the night , and , following his track , I found him at some distance , lying dead in the snow . " * The ...
... hour in the evening , I returned from my hunt , they could not tell what had become of him . I left the camp about the middle of the night , and , following his track , I found him at some distance , lying dead in the snow . " * The ...
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... hours , at the end of which he sprang from the ground with a vehement exulting emotion . He had formed his resolution , which was , that all these estates should be his again ; he had formed his plan , too , which he instantly began to ...
... hours , at the end of which he sprang from the ground with a vehement exulting emotion . He had formed his resolution , which was , that all these estates should be his again ; he had formed his plan , too , which he instantly began to ...
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