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Last year 19 , 504 volumes were loaned for reading ; this year 34 , 104 —
showing the very marked increase over last year of 14 , 600 volumes loaned to
readers . From 1849 to the present time , there has been an average of less than
a ...
Last year 19 , 504 volumes were loaned for reading ; this year 34 , 104 —
showing the very marked increase over last year of 14 , 600 volumes loaned to
readers . From 1849 to the present time , there has been an average of less than
a ...
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bor of his , who had in his early years the same advantages , but who did not
improve them ; — who never gained this love of reading , and who now , in
consequence , instead of living this happy and desirable life , wastes his
evenings with ...
bor of his , who had in his early years the same advantages , but who did not
improve them ; — who never gained this love of reading , and who now , in
consequence , instead of living this happy and desirable life , wastes his
evenings with ...
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and might have been a happy one but for a single misfortune - he had not
learned to enjoy reading . The love of reading is a blessing in any pursuit , in any
course of life ; not less to the merchant and sailor than to the mechanic and
farmer .
and might have been a happy one but for a single misfortune - he had not
learned to enjoy reading . The love of reading is a blessing in any pursuit , in any
course of life ; not less to the merchant and sailor than to the mechanic and
farmer .
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Happy , then , is he who has laid up in youth , and · held fast in all fortune , a
genuine and passionate love of reading . True balm of hurt minds ; of surer and
more healthful charm than ' poppy or mandragora , or all the drowsy syrups of the
...
Happy , then , is he who has laid up in youth , and · held fast in all fortune , a
genuine and passionate love of reading . True balm of hurt minds ; of surer and
more healthful charm than ' poppy or mandragora , or all the drowsy syrups of the
...
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The irresistable inference is plain , that a proper and plentiful supply of food for
thought ought early to be supplied . “ Seldom , very seldom , " remarks an
observing writer , “ does one who is fond of reading , and who therefore employs
his ...
The irresistable inference is plain , that a proper and plentiful supply of food for
thought ought early to be supplied . “ Seldom , very seldom , " remarks an
observing writer , “ does one who is fond of reading , and who therefore employs
his ...
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Academies acre Amount Library fines Amount of money amount of Wages annually attended School Average Average amount better Board cent character Children cited City Common Schools Counties and Towns District Libraries dollars duty equal experience Female Female Teacher Fund give Government Grant Green Grove half hand HORACE MANN hundred important improvement increase Institutes instruction interest Joint knowledge lands Legislature less Male Teachers matter means Michigan mind money raised money received months Schools moral Names of Counties nature never Normal object paid persons practical Prairie present proper pupils raised by tax reading regard result says School Fund School House School House Sites School Libraries secure Spring success Superintendent TABLE taught tax and expended teach thousand tion Township Treasurer University valuation volumes Wages whole Wisconsin
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Página 37 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 238 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
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Página 240 - ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success...
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| Título | Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and Educational Interests of the State of Wisconsin |
| Autor | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction |
| Editora | Department of Public Instruction, 1858 |
| Original de | Universidade de Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitalizado | 12 out. 2007 |
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