 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 920 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian combatant, whenenveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication for the people... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1825 - 44 pages
...matiifest . that the powers of goMCTJiment are but -a" ; and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community> ; As knowledge is more and more exteededij this con victk#i becomes more and more geneilal. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...country not yet blessed with free institutions; . Dispel tliis cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE—and Ajax asks no more.' We may hope, that... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...extended, this conviction becomes more and more general. AT BUNKER HILL, 1825. . 317 Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...country not yet blessed with free institutions; ' Dispel tliia cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me To SEE — and Ajax asks no more.' \ We may hope,... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 550 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more and more extended, this conviction becomes more nnd more general. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1843 - 48 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...every country not yet blessed with free institutions; 1 Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE—and Ajax asks no more.' We may hope,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...power are scattered with all its beams. The prayer o_f the Grecian combatant, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power arc scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication... | |
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... supported by the excess and the abuse of it, are yielding, in our age, to other opinions; and the civilized world seems at last to be proceeding to the conviction of that fundamental and manifest truth, that the powers of government are but a trust,... 
