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... enabled to go to college . He had nobly learned the trade of a tallow chandler , and also that of shoemaker . Left an orphan in his youth he had provided for his mother during her long life . He had with his earnings provided for his ...
... enabled to go to college . He had nobly learned the trade of a tallow chandler , and also that of shoemaker . Left an orphan in his youth he had provided for his mother during her long life . He had with his earnings provided for his ...
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... enabled to call upon citizens who have passed through a high school , a college or a university , they have an assurance that the men whom they propose to entrust with momentous duties have at least received a certain amount of mental ...
... enabled to call upon citizens who have passed through a high school , a college or a university , they have an assurance that the men whom they propose to entrust with momentous duties have at least received a certain amount of mental ...
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... enabled to accomplish by helping to give wisdom to the patriotic representatives of nations , the connection be- tween a high grade of culture and what may be called a certain class of inventions , may well attract the attention of the ...
... enabled to accomplish by helping to give wisdom to the patriotic representatives of nations , the connection be- tween a high grade of culture and what may be called a certain class of inventions , may well attract the attention of the ...
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... in the way of con- structing a steam - engine , -indeed , had it not been for this letter , Prof. Small might never have been enabled to induce Boulton , who may be said to have been 60 A STATE SHOULD HAVE A UNIVERSITY .
... in the way of con- structing a steam - engine , -indeed , had it not been for this letter , Prof. Small might never have been enabled to induce Boulton , who may be said to have been 60 A STATE SHOULD HAVE A UNIVERSITY .
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... enables us to pay the interest of our debt , and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged [ 1819 ] , with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation . But these are poor and narrow views of its ...
... enables us to pay the interest of our debt , and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged [ 1819 ] , with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation . But these are poor and narrow views of its ...
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Page 284 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 213 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 113 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 247 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 284 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 246 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 284 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 355 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 266 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Page 60 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.