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- "A degree of confidence in our own powers is a useful and necessary incentive to ..."
- "A merchant may extend his dealings, a tradesman may increase his customers, but the teacher's ..."
- "A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let ..."
- "A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are ..."
- "A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, ..."
- "All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to ..."
- "As a citizen of the world, and a friend of mankind, actuated by no sectarian ..."
- "At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at ..."
- "Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with ..."
- "I am an advocate for kind treatment on the part of the proposed society, and ..."
- "I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the ..."
- "I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, ..."
- "I wish the enormous wealth of our country may neither prove a scourge to mankind, ..."
- "If a society, for encouraging the commendable exertions of teachers, and bettering the state of ..."
- "Impressed with these sentiments, I feel a wish, as every friend to mankind must, that ..."
- "In proportion as this sweetener of human toil is intermingled in our cup, so do ..."
- "In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members ..."
- "Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and ..."
- "IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to ..."
- "Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the ..."
- "Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ..."
- "May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to ..."
- "My school is attended by near three hundred scholars. "
- "The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through ..."
- "The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for ..."
- "The mental powers of boys are similiar to those of men; but in embryo. "
- "THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in ..."
- "The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile ..."
- "The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate ..."
- "Therefore, it has long been acknowledged, that education, as it respects those who are unprovided ..."
- "This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the ..."
- "Vanity seems insensibly entwined about our nature, and, mingling with our best performances, often debases ..."
- "We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, ..."
- "We have many societies, whose benevolent exertions contribute much to the public good: but among ..."
- "When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any ..."
