Hidden fields
Books Books
" ... 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,... "
American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most ... - Page 368
1857
Full view - About this book

The Flickinger Family History: Including the Flickinger Families in the ...

1927 - 984 pages
...reading the following patriotic sentiment expressed by Daniel Webster at the Bunker Hill monument. "Knowledge in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of hitman liberty.'' This sentiment...
Full view - About this book

The Republican, Volume 12

1825 - 856 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...
Full view - About this book

Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...Shakespeare "Knowledge, like religion, must be 'experienced' in order to be known." — Edwin Percy Whipple "Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all beams." — Webster "All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." — "The desire to know...
Limited preview - About this book

John F. Kennedy in His Own Words

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 246 pages
...history. Campaign address in San Francisco, November 2, 1960 CHAPTER 4 Education ********************** "Knowledge, in truth is the great sun in the firmament....Life and power are scattered with all its beams," Daniel Webster declared in 1825. Significandy, the occasion for such oration was not the founding of...
Limited preview - About this book

The Speeches of Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster - United States - 590 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...darkness, is the appropriate political supplication for people of every country not yet blessed with free institutions : " Dispel this cloud, the light of...
Full view - About this book

Ties: The Southern Railway System Magazine, Volumes 1-3

Railroads - 1947 - 1076 pages
...dat 'Status Quo' mean?" "Well, Deacon," rejoined the parson, "dat am Latin for the mess we is in." KNOWLEDGE IN TRUTH IS THE GREAT SUN IN THE FIRMAMENT. LIFE AND POWER ARE SCATTERED WITH ALL ITS BEAMS. — Daniel Webster YOUR NAME You got it from your father; 'twas the best he had to give. And right...
Full view - About this book

VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician

Veterinary medicine - 1917 - 1100 pages
...plates of eight poisonous plants. It would seem that the New International meets American conditions. , Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. — Webster. NTED OPINIONS' Veermaru / ° ne It is in reports like those of the department that the...
Full view - About this book

Pacific Medical Journal, Volume 51

Medicine - 1908 - 866 pages
...from the hospital by the day, week or month. SAINT WINIFRD SANATORIUM. Telephone — : Franklin K5G. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. — Daniel Webster. 729 Original Articles The Board of Medical Examiners of the State of California...
Full view - About this book

The Virginia School Journal, Volume 3

Education - 1894 - 376 pages
...musicians, painters and sculptors of modern times and of antiquity. " Knowledge," said Daniel Webster, " is the great sun in the firmament ; life and power are scattered with all its beams. It is the only fountain both of the love and principles of human liberty." Said Charles Phillips :...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF