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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: done b] tbelGovcrnment, not to train and prepare the people for thelxpirisc of popular rights, but to wean them from the wish, ad fJghten them from the attempt to attain them ? Who, that looks%ith any moderate degree of candour on the pitiful shifts by which Prussia has sought to evade the performance of her engagements to her subjects, and on the prompt and decided part -she has taken in the proceedings of the Holy Alliance, can doubt for a moment how these questions are to be answered ? The policy which she is pursuing, we are indeed persuaded, is a short-sighted and ruinous one, and will, we trust, lead speedily to its own confusion; but that it is, in principle and design, an illiberal and truly tyrannical policy, we cannot allow to be doubted, ?nor withhold this expression of our wonder at the doubts of the intelligent writer before us. Though we do not think him altogether sound in his politics, however, we have no suspicion of his candour in the statement of fids, or the liberality of his general views; and indeed could desire no other materials for the refutation of his practical and particular errors, than the facts he has furnished, and the principles he has avowed. The greater part of his book, however, has nothing to do with politics; and though we refrain from any farther extracts, we can snt'dy assure the great body of our idle readers, that they will find the bulk of it much more amusing than the specimens we have last exhibted. Art. V. Hints to Philanthropists; or a Collective View of Practical Means of Improving the Condition of the Poor and Labouring Classes of Society. By William Davis. r] he subject of Popular Education has frequently engaged -- our attention since the commencement of this Journal; hut we have hitherto confined ourselves to the great f...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346757 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346758 |
| Weight | 1.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $32.29 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 476 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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