| Ebenezer Henderson - 1818 - 492 páginas
...been farther than a few miles from the place where they were born. Nor do I scarcely ever recol. lect entering a hut, where I did not find some individual,...same rank of society in other countries of Europe. On many occasions, indeed, the common Icelanders discover an acquaintance with the history and literature... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 páginas
...miles from the place where they were born ; nor do I scarcely ever recollect entering a hut, where 1 did not find some individual or another capable of...same rank of society in other countries of Europe.' Of the state of general intelligence and information, a striking instance was afforded in a peasant,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 páginas
...miles from the place where they were born ; nor do I scarcely ever recollect entering a hut, where 1 did not find some individual or another capable of...same rank of society in other countries of Europe.' Of the state of general intelligence and information, a striking instance was afforded in a peasant,... | |
| Ebenezer Henderson - 1819 - 634 páginas
...Latin authors, who have never been farther than a few miles from the place where they were born. Nor do I scarcely ever recollect entering a hut, where I...same rank of society in other countries of Europe. On many occasions, indeed, the common Icelanders discover an acquaintance with the history and literature... | |
| 1819 - 630 páginas
...authors, who have never been farther than a few miles from the place where they were born ; nor do I scarcely ever recollect entering a hut, where I...same rank of society in other countries of Europe.' Of the state of general intelligence and information, a striking instance was afforded in a peasant,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 páginas
...authors, who have never been farther than a few miles from the place where they were born ; nor do I scarcely ever recollect entering a hut, where I...same rank of society in other countries of Europe. " Their predominant character," Dr. Henderson says, " is that of unsuspecting frankness, pious contentment,... | |
| 492 páginas
...Authors, who have never " been farther than a few miles from the place where " they were born. Nor do I scarcely ever recollect " entering a hut, where...conversation ** with me, on topics which would be reckoned alto" gether above the understandings of people in the " same rank of society in other countries of... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 páginas
...with ease, and in almost every family there is some individual capable of entering into conversation on topics which would be reckoned altogether above...people in the same rank of society in other countries. This is not owing to the institution of public schools, for there is but one on the island, but to... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 páginas
...Latin authors, who have never been farther than a few miles from the place where they were born. Nor do I scarcely ever recollect entering a hut where I did not find some individual capable of entering into conversation with me on topics which would be reckoned altogether above the... | |
| 1831 - 622 páginas
...recollect entering a hut, where I did not find some individual or another, capable of entering into conversation with me on topics which would be reckoned...same rank of society in other countries of Europe." Infant Schools in New York. Infant schools were established four or five years since in New York. There... | |
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