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... labour a printer can get a guinea a week , it is a very desirable occupation for you . Do you hear , -take all the pains you can ; and if this does not do , we must think of some other way of life for you . There's a guinea . " Here was ...
... labour a printer can get a guinea a week , it is a very desirable occupation for you . Do you hear , -take all the pains you can ; and if this does not do , we must think of some other way of life for you . There's a guinea . " Here was ...
Pagina 589
... labour . Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children , what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted , and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid ...
... labour . Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children , what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted , and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid ...
Pagina 612
... labour disproportionate to its utility . " For the same reason he satyrised statuary . " Painting ( said he , ) consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect ; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make some ...
... labour disproportionate to its utility . " For the same reason he satyrised statuary . " Painting ( said he , ) consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect ; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make some ...
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