The Royal Dictionary-cyclopædia, for Universal Reference: Being a Complete Literary, Classical, Historical, Biographical, Geographical, Scientific, and Technological Expositor of the English Language : and Embodying, in a Condensed and Common-sense Form, the Signification of All Terms in Ordinary Use, with the Derivation of Each Word, and Its Pronunciation, Volume 2London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, 1862 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 290 - Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations.
Page 456 - Faith, in its most general sense, is the assent of the mind to the truth of what is .declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity without other evidence.
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