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... learning is gone , and nothing has yet come to take its place . Never did an ancient civilization fall so swiftly and , to outward appearance , so utterly . Yet all the while the self - confidence and self- esteem of this strange people ...
... learning is gone , and nothing has yet come to take its place . Never did an ancient civilization fall so swiftly and , to outward appearance , so utterly . Yet all the while the self - confidence and self- esteem of this strange people ...
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... learning their Donatus or elementary grammar as far as the parts of speech , as well as those learning the art of grammar and dialectic or logic ; but the music master might teach and inform those learning to read , the psalter music ...
... learning their Donatus or elementary grammar as far as the parts of speech , as well as those learning the art of grammar and dialectic or logic ; but the music master might teach and inform those learning to read , the psalter music ...
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... learning [ i.e. classical learning ] he is to sharpen as far as he can by reading , writing , and casting accounts , lest they should seem to have come to our school for nothing ' . Alas ! for two centuries this school has taught little ...
... learning [ i.e. classical learning ] he is to sharpen as far as he can by reading , writing , and casting accounts , lest they should seem to have come to our school for nothing ' . Alas ! for two centuries this school has taught little ...
Contents
PAGE | 23 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS | 113 |
THE STUDY OF MODERN HISTORY IN GREAT BRITAIN CONSIDERed | 139 |
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