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... writing is useful in the precise degree in which it is phonetically spelt , and no further . Perhaps no one will venture to say that this statement is in accord with the facts ; but un- less the current pseudo - axiom means this , I am ...
... writing is useful in the precise degree in which it is phonetically spelt , and no further . Perhaps no one will venture to say that this statement is in accord with the facts ; but un- less the current pseudo - axiom means this , I am ...
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... writing the bondslave of speech . 3. But writing , in its primitive freedom , was in some ways a better organ than speech . The eye perceives symbols simultaneously ; the ear perceives sounds only in succession . Mental reading was thus ...
... writing the bondslave of speech . 3. But writing , in its primitive freedom , was in some ways a better organ than speech . The eye perceives symbols simultaneously ; the ear perceives sounds only in succession . Mental reading was thus ...
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... writing and arithmetic , the earliest known anticipation of the writing - master who became common in grammar schools in the eighteenth century and onwards . At Acaster this third master was ' to teach to write and all such things as ...
... writing and arithmetic , the earliest known anticipation of the writing - master who became common in grammar schools in the eighteenth century and onwards . At Acaster this third master was ' to teach to write and all such things as ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT HON VISCOUNT BRYCE O M | 7 |
THE CELTIC INSCRIPTIONS OF CISALPINE GAUL BY SIR JOHN RHŶS | 23 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AT THE OPENING MEETING OF THE INTER | 113 |
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