| United States. President - Presidents - 1805 - 276 pages
...country, by a due attention to the post office and post roads. Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can...in which the measures of government receive their impression 'so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionably essential.... | |
| Samuel Blodget - Business & Economics - 1806 - 258 pages
...viz. Extract from a speech to the first congress, 1789. " Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can...every country the surest basis of public happiness, &c." Answer of the Senate. " Literature and science are essential to the preservation of a free constitution.... | |
| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...the prosperity of the interior, the president added, " nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can...public happiness. In one, in which the measures of CHAP. iv. government receive their impression so inline1790. diately from the sense of the community... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...science and literature. " Knowledge," he observed, " ia in every country the surest basis of publick happiness. In one, in which the measures of government...from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." And he concluded with the following assurances. " I shall derive great satisfaction... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...literature. " Knowledge," he observed, " is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. Io onc1 in which the measures of government receive their...from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." And he concluded with the following assurances. " I shall derive great satisfaction... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...measures of the United States ; and the promotion of science and literature. " Knowledge," he observed, " is in every country the surest basis of public happiness....the measures of government receive their impressions go immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential." And he... | |
| United States - 1815 - 508 pages
...that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronuge, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of publick happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately... | |
| United States - 1819 - 514 pages
...by a due attention to the post office and post roads. Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can...Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of publick happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately... | |
| Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 472 pages
...the president upon literature were thus expressed.—" Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion, that there' is nothing which can...every country, the surest basis of public happiness." 1 &c. After applauding the disposition of Congress, shewn the last session, towards an adequate provision... | |
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