America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1841 - Atlantic States |
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... means of dif- fusing and improving useful knowledge form so small a proportion of the expenditures for national purposes , I cannot presume it to be unreasonable to invite your attention to the advantage of super- adding to the means of ...
... means of dif- fusing and improving useful knowledge form so small a proportion of the expenditures for national purposes , I cannot presume it to be unreasonable to invite your attention to the advantage of super- adding to the means of ...
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... means of preserving our liberties . " John Quincy Adams , the sixth president , differs in no respect from his predecessors in office as to the importance of public insti- tutions , supported at the expense of the state , for promoting ...
... means of preserving our liberties . " John Quincy Adams , the sixth president , differs in no respect from his predecessors in office as to the importance of public insti- tutions , supported at the expense of the state , for promoting ...
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... mean time , have grown up with such pernicious examples before them . " Though this letter be not the precise place for the following remark , I nevertheless cannot refrain from making it , since it seems to me of the greatest ...
... mean time , have grown up with such pernicious examples before them . " Though this letter be not the precise place for the following remark , I nevertheless cannot refrain from making it , since it seems to me of the greatest ...
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... means by which we may solve this question to the satisfaction of every fair inquirer , namely , by ascertain- ing the degree of education which every convict has obtained . If we should find that , in a country in which few individuals ...
... means by which we may solve this question to the satisfaction of every fair inquirer , namely , by ascertain- ing the degree of education which every convict has obtained . If we should find that , in a country in which few individuals ...
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... means of religious observances are amply sufficient for every individual who could possibly profit by them ; and it is believed that at least 20,000 persons out of the 30,000 do really attend the places of public worship on the Sabbath ...
... means of religious observances are amply sufficient for every individual who could possibly profit by them ; and it is believed that at least 20,000 persons out of the 30,000 do really attend the places of public worship on the Sabbath ...
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Page 445 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 316 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 410 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 313 - They nourished up ~by YOUR indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Page 313 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Page 23 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 316 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 23 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights...
Page 83 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 84 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.