A Discourse, Delivered Before the Honourable Legislature of Vermont, on the Anniversary Election, October 10, 1822. ... |
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... accomplishment of those prom- ises , while his decendants dwelt in Egypt ; and more especially afterwards , when they came to dwell in Palestine . And it is further illustrated , by refering to the history of our own country . The first ...
... accomplishment of those prom- ises , while his decendants dwelt in Egypt ; and more especially afterwards , when they came to dwell in Palestine . And it is further illustrated , by refering to the history of our own country . The first ...
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... respected Rulers , of your alloted parts , in the accomplishment of those high destinies , to which , we trust , it is the purpose and counsel of God to raise this nation . And may we all feel disposed , so to consider 36.
... respected Rulers , of your alloted parts , in the accomplishment of those high destinies , to which , we trust , it is the purpose and counsel of God to raise this nation . And may we all feel disposed , so to consider 36.
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Page 21 - And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it ; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 17 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 21 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 19 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society, are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge...
Page 15 - Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth : they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Page 16 - ... communicated. Those intellectual and moral qualities, so essential to the permanent prosperity of a State, can be promoted extensively in no other way, than by education, early begun and judiciously prosecuted. The youth in a community have, long since, been compared to the spring. The loss of these would be like striking out from the year, the vernal months. If there be no vegetation in the opening year, what shall support life during the time of autumn and winter ? Or what if there be a luxuriant...
Page 14 - ... mineralogy, lately introduced into our country, and now cultivated with so much ardor and success, cannot fail, by their influence on medicine, agriculture and the arts, to produce consequences of great national importance. The nature of man on the one side, and of soils and climates on the other, remains the same in every age. It is knowledge — it is cultivation that produces the change. To this are we to ascribe it, that in our own country, where, two centuries ago, wild beasts and savages...
Page 8 - It seems to have been reserved for the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
Page 16 - ... applied equally to the mind and the body. Lycurgus would have his laws engraved on the hearts of the citizens ; and, to effect this, he endeavored so to direct the education of youth, that his institutions might be to them, as a law of nature. f " In the rising ages of Rome...
Page 12 - ... people, descendants of New England ancestry, living, free and happy, in regions which hardly sixty years ago were tracts of unpenetrated forest. Nor do rivers, or mountains, or seas resist the progress of industry and enterprise. Ere long, the sons of the Pilgrims will be on the shores of the Pacific. The imagination hardly keeps up with the progress of population, improvement, and civilization.