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The Doctrine of Changes as Applicable Both to the Institutions of Social ... - Page 300
by Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1844 - 520 pages
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A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1830 - 390 pages
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...their purposes, can alone bestow. But to this end it is necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped...light of a craft and a mystery, inaccessible without & kind of apprenticeshipScience, of course, like every thing "else, has its own peculiar terms, and,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 3

Periodicals - 1834 - 532 pages
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Discourses on the Objects and Uses of Science and Literature

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Education, Higher - 1843 - 342 pages
...own purposes, can alone bestow. To this end it is necessary that science should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped...technicalities as tend to place it in the light of a craft or a mystery, inaccessible without a kind of apprenticeship. Science, of course, like everything else,...
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Reading lessons for the higher classes in classical, middle and diocesan schools

William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...their purposes, can alone bestow. But to this end it is necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped...these it would be unwise, were it even possible, to relinguish : but every thing that tends to clothe it in a strange and repulsive garb, and especially...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 1

Charles Knight - English literature - 1847 - 416 pages
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 1

Charles Knight - English literature - 1850 - 648 pages
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped of iill such technicalities as tend to place it in the light of a craft and u mystery, inaccessible without a kind of apprenticeship. Science, of course, like every thing else,...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 4

Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...their purposes, can alone bestow. But to this end it is necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped...kind of apprenticeship... Science, of course, like everything else, has its own peculiar terms, and, so to speak, its idioms of language ; and these it...
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Aspects of Humanity: Brokenly Mirrored in the Ever-swelling Current of Human ...

Richard Randolph - Metaphysics - 1869 - 70 pages
...best estate, is merely a system of signs. THE AUTHOR. PHILADELPHIA, 1859. " Science, of course, . . . has its own peculiar terms, and, so to speak, its...unwise, were it even possible, to relinquish ; but everything that tends to clothe it in a strange and repulsive garb, and especially everything that,...
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