James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... compulsory education for all the people , the secret of Scotland's progress . Great as was the service Knox rendered in the field ecclesiastical , probably what he did for the cause of public education excels 4 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... compulsory education for all the people , the secret of Scotland's progress . Great as was the service Knox rendered in the field ecclesiastical , probably what he did for the cause of public education excels 4 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
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... probably , in the extent and quality of the influence he exerted upon the national character through universal compulsory education , the foremost of all . The very year after Parliament passed the Act of 1696 , which at last fulfilled ...
... probably , in the extent and quality of the influence he exerted upon the national character through universal compulsory education , the foremost of all . The very year after Parliament passed the Act of 1696 , which at last fulfilled ...
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... probably lie dormant . Scotch boy as Watt was to the core , with the lowland broad , soft accent , and ignorant of foreign literature , it is very certain that he then found support in the lessons instilled at his mother's knee . He 26 ...
... probably lie dormant . Scotch boy as Watt was to the core , with the lowland broad , soft accent , and ignorant of foreign literature , it is very certain that he then found support in the lessons instilled at his mother's knee . He 26 ...
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... probably enjoys an hon- orable title , a pet name conferred by his shopmates . Men measure each other as correctly in the workshop as in the professions , and each has his deserved rank . When the right man is promoted , they rally ...
... probably enjoys an hon- orable title , a pet name conferred by his shopmates . Men measure each other as correctly in the workshop as in the professions , and each has his deserved rank . When the right man is promoted , they rally ...
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... probably more so . Thus is human nature ever the same down to the roots . Many distinctions , few differences in life . We are all kin , members of the one family , playing with different toys . So deep down into the ranks of labor goes ...
... probably more so . Thus is human nature ever the same down to the roots . Many distinctions , few differences in life . We are all kin , members of the one family , playing with different toys . So deep down into the ranks of labor goes ...
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