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The Mechanic's Text-book and Engineer's Practical Guide ... - Page 197
1855 - 403 pages
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An Address Delivered as the Introduction to the Franklin Lectures, in Boston ...

Edward Everett - 1832 - 24 pages
...pleasure to be acquainted, in one of the neighboring towns, with a person, who was brought up to the trade of a leatherdresser, and has all his life worked and...has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof, which covers...
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Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels ..., Volume 3

1832 - 548 pages
...one of the neighboring towns, with a person, who was brought up to the trade of a l«alherdresser, and has all his life worked and still works at this...has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof, which covers...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 pages
...pleasure to be acquainted, in one of the neighboring towns, with a person, who was brought up to the trade of a leather-dresser, and has all his life worked,...has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof, which covers...
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Magazine of Botany and Gardening British and Foreign ..., Volume 3

1837 - 276 pages
...the trade of в leather-dresser, and has all bis life worked and still works at this business — be has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his...elegant learning ; under the same roof which covers bis store and workshop, he has the most select library of private books with which lam acquainted ;...
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Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection ...

Edward Everett - 1840 - 460 pages
...pleasure to be acquainted, in one of the neighboring towns, with a person, who was brought up to the trade of a leatherdresser, and has all his life worked,...has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof, which covers...
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Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection ...

Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pages
...pleasure to be acquainted, in one of the neighboring towns, with a person, who was brought up to the trade of a leatherdresser, and has all his life worked, and still works, at this business.* Ho has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful...
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The Mechanic's Text-book and Engineer's Pocket Guide: Containing a Concise ...

Thomas Kelt - 1849 - 424 pages
...to be acquainted, in one of the neighbouring towns, with a person, who was brought up to the trade of a leather.dresser, and has all his life worked,...cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same rooij which covers his store and workshop, he has the most excellent library of English books, for...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1

Edward Everett - 1850 - 708 pages
...person who was brought up to the trade of * See New England Magazine, Vol. L p. 413. a leather dresser, and has all his life worked, and still works, at this...has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof which covers...
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A glance at private libraries

Luther Farnham - 1855 - 94 pages
...leisure hours, and * See Everett's Orations and Speechei, Vol. I. p. 324. a portion of his honorable earnings to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof that covers his workshop, he has the most excellent library of English books, for its size, with which...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 3

Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 pages
...pleasure to be acquainted, in one of the neighboring towns, with a person who was brought up to the trade of a leather-dresser, and has all his life worked,...has devoted his leisure hours, and a portion of his honorable earnings, to the cultivation of useful and elegant learning. Under the same roof which covers...
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