Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of WisconsinThe Department., 1858 |
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... Government , who has been examining the school systems of Germany , urges the necessity of compul- sory instruction - of some system which shall compel the attendance upon instruction of some kind of all the children of the State . If ...
... Government , who has been examining the school systems of Germany , urges the necessity of compul- sory instruction - of some system which shall compel the attendance upon instruction of some kind of all the children of the State . If ...
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... Government , and also a large quantity of lands not yet re - ported as Swamp Lands , which must eventually be placed in that cate gory , and inure to the State . From the best information I can gain from the officers having in charge ...
... Government , and also a large quantity of lands not yet re - ported as Swamp Lands , which must eventually be placed in that cate gory , and inure to the State . From the best information I can gain from the officers having in charge ...
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... Government was justly bound to liquidate . Notwithstanding this position of the affair , when Wisconsin became a State , Congress admitted her into the Union , with a pledge that she should be made the trestee , the same as other new ...
... Government was justly bound to liquidate . Notwithstanding this position of the affair , when Wisconsin became a State , Congress admitted her into the Union , with a pledge that she should be made the trestee , the same as other new ...
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... Government , and it was not till twelve years afterwards that any complaint was intimated . In conse- quence of the ... Government from sales of pub- lic lands in Wisconsin has reached , in round numbers , the large sum of twelve ...
... Government , and it was not till twelve years afterwards that any complaint was intimated . In conse- quence of the ... Government from sales of pub- lic lands in Wisconsin has reached , in round numbers , the large sum of twelve ...
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... Government , which is not admitted , then the State should pay it , not out of the School Fund , which it could not ... Government lands south of township line 30 , as have been sold north of that line , then there must be , at the least ...
... Government , which is not admitted , then the State should pay it , not out of the School Fund , which it could not ... Government lands south of township line 30 , as have been sold north of that line , then there must be , at the least ...
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acre Amount Library fines Amount of money amount of Wages Apportion attended School Average amount Board braries Caledonia cent Children over 20 cited City Common Schools Counties and Towns Creek Dell Prairie Diamond Bluff District Libraries Eau Claire Erin Prairie Farmington Fayette Female Teacher Fond du Lac Green Lake Grove Highest valuation Houses in Joint Jefferson Joint Libraries Juneau Kewaunee Legislature Library fines collected Library fines expended Lowest valuation Male Children residing Male Teachers Manitowoc Marcellon ment Mineral Point money raised money received month paid months Schools moral Names of Counties Oconto Packwaukee paid to Male Prairie Public Instruction raised by tax reported residing in Town School Districts School Fund School House Sites School Libraries Schools without Outline Sheboygan Sheboygan Falls Shullsburg Star Prairie TABLE taught tax and expended tion Total valuation Town Superintendent Township Library V.-continued Volumes loaned Wages per month Watertown City Wisconsin
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Page 191 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 234 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Page 26 - No! the charges against me are all of one kind, that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far; further than a cautious policy would warrant; and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Page 232 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 31 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 27 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 228 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure — reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 27 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling, if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...
Page 57 - 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.
Page 57 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.