| Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1824 - 260 páginas
...so slight a cause, and at so trivial an expence. " Of all obstacles to improvement (says " Sumner) ignorance is the most formidable, " because the only...them, not " with a temporary stimulus, but with a perma" nent energy." * Not merely will the children who attend the schools become better members of... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 páginas
...the inevitable lot of the majority of our community; and with ignorance a host of evils disappear. Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 páginas
...labours. Mr Sumner has excellently observed, in reference to the diffusion of education, that — " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
| 1854 - 618 páginas
...ifrnirance ia the mo«t formidable, because the only true secret uf asaiitiu^ the poor if by nuking them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them not with a temporary iumlui, but with a permanent energy. As fist as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become... | |
| John Francis Bray - 1839 - 224 páginas
...from the evils connected with an indigent and unemployed population ; for it is confessed that — " the only true secret of assisting the poor, is to...temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy." The admissions of the economists go not only to show that the present social system is radically defective,... | |
| Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes - 1840 - 168 páginas
...higher than that of immediate interest makes his habitual employment an exercise of practical religion. "Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the...more and more able to co-operate in any plan proposed *"* their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonsuggestion, more able to understand, and therefore... | |
| George Moody - 1843 - 444 páginas
...Catechism (Burns). t IK lEDitor'd portfolio. INTJIOENCE NOT OFTEN FOUND IN COMPANY WITH GOOD EDUCATION. Of all obstacles to improvement ignorance is the most...standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become mi>re and more able to co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, and more likely to listen... | |
| 1843 - 948 páginas
...formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their o*n condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary...as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor "ecomc more and more able to co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, and more likely to... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 páginas
...their advantage. It has been well observed, in reference to the diffusion of education, that — " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1851 - 168 páginas
...Archbishop of Canterbury has excellently observed, in reference to the diffusion of education, that — " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the...co-operate in any plan proposed for their advantage, more likely to listen to any reasonable suggestion, more able to understand, and therefore more willing... | |
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