Through Boyhood to Manhood: A Plea for IdealsLongmans, Green, 1899 - 194 pages |
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... difficulty , but it is the best solution that we can get . A man and woman who bring up their boy to be religious dread sending him to the ordinary public school , because of the dry bones which he 32 THROUGH BOYHOOD TO MANHOOD .
... difficulty , but it is the best solution that we can get . A man and woman who bring up their boy to be religious dread sending him to the ordinary public school , because of the dry bones which he 32 THROUGH BOYHOOD TO MANHOOD .
Page 35
... difficulty - almost the impossibility - of getting rid of " old stagers " . Head - masters ought to be a great deal more autocratic than they are . Only so can it be insured that their influence will pervade the school as it should if ...
... difficulty - almost the impossibility - of getting rid of " old stagers " . Head - masters ought to be a great deal more autocratic than they are . Only so can it be insured that their influence will pervade the school as it should if ...
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... difficult for me to speak of the defects in the religion offered to boys at public schools without going back to their home life , and of that I have spoken elsewhere . I believe it to resolve itself , as I have already implied , into a ...
... difficult for me to speak of the defects in the religion offered to boys at public schools without going back to their home life , and of that I have spoken elsewhere . I believe it to resolve itself , as I have already implied , into a ...
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... difficulty in the pathway of the future , " they would be far nearer the truth . So many people will feel when I say this that to speak of self - indulgence , selfishness and moral diffi- culties in connection with a baby is ridiculous ...
... difficulty in the pathway of the future , " they would be far nearer the truth . So many people will feel when I say this that to speak of self - indulgence , selfishness and moral diffi- culties in connection with a baby is ridiculous ...
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... difficult to see its worth , things that they eat and drink would assume a very different aspect . It could not be wrong to think an article of food delicious if its de- liciousness were not regarded as a reason for eating as much of it ...
... difficult to see its worth , things that they eat and drink would assume a very different aspect . It could not be wrong to think an article of food delicious if its de- liciousness were not regarded as a reason for eating as much of it ...
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