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Page 13
... give his son a suitable preparation for the contemplated profession , would involve an expense which he would be unable to meet , without very great difficulty , if at all . Besides , on looking more closely into the matter , he thought ...
... give his son a suitable preparation for the contemplated profession , would involve an expense which he would be unable to meet , without very great difficulty , if at all . Besides , on looking more closely into the matter , he thought ...
Page 16
... give a practical turn to his most abstruse theoretical ideas , and to regard as the best criterion of the value of all philosophical studies , the extent to which they can be rendered subservient to the wants , the com MECHANICAL ...
... give a practical turn to his most abstruse theoretical ideas , and to regard as the best criterion of the value of all philosophical studies , the extent to which they can be rendered subservient to the wants , the com MECHANICAL ...
Page 25
... give him , every week , half the money paid for his board , he would board himself . The proposal was instantly accepted , and the benefits he derived from this arrangement shall be stated in his own words : - - " I presently found ...
... give him , every week , half the money paid for his board , he would board himself . The proposal was instantly accepted , and the benefits he derived from this arrangement shall be stated in his own words : - - " I presently found ...
Page 26
... give it the freest conversa- tional turn , but he had , also , a peculiar method of lead- ing his disciples and followers to the most strenuous ex- ercise of their own faculties , in receiving the opinions . and the knowledge he wished ...
... give it the freest conversa- tional turn , but he had , also , a peculiar method of lead- ing his disciples and followers to the most strenuous ex- ercise of their own faculties , in receiving the opinions . and the knowledge he wished ...
Page 39
... give the remedy a fair trial . This gave him , in the course of the night , so effectual a sweating , that , when the morning came , his fever was gone , and he set forth on foot for Burlington , fifty miles distant , on the Delaware ...
... give the remedy a fair trial . This gave him , in the course of the night , so effectual a sweating , that , when the morning came , his fever was gone , and he set forth on foot for Burlington , fifty miles distant , on the Delaware ...
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