Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of WisconsinThe Department., 1858 |
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... object , let it be borne in mind , which cannot be as per- petual as the unceasing and increasing wants of education.- One - fourth of the Swamp Land Fund , cannot , as I have already estimated , be less than $ 881,970 09 , and it may ...
... object , let it be borne in mind , which cannot be as per- petual as the unceasing and increasing wants of education.- One - fourth of the Swamp Land Fund , cannot , as I have already estimated , be less than $ 881,970 09 , and it may ...
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... object in view . If I have urged this matter with seeming pertinacity , I may plead in justification the sentiment of LA FAYETTE in the As- sembly of French Notables in 1787 : - " We are summoned , " he exclaimed , " to make the truth ...
... object in view . If I have urged this matter with seeming pertinacity , I may plead in justification the sentiment of LA FAYETTE in the As- sembly of French Notables in 1787 : - " We are summoned , " he exclaimed , " to make the truth ...
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... object worthy of all efforts and sacrifices . We should leave nothing undone which may tend to make them more ex- cellent and more useful . For this , we should gather into our own stores all the harvests of experience which have been ...
... object worthy of all efforts and sacrifices . We should leave nothing undone which may tend to make them more ex- cellent and more useful . For this , we should gather into our own stores all the harvests of experience which have been ...
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... objects of thought ; instead of forming their judgments in crowds , and receiving their chief excitement from the voices of neighbors , men are now learning to study and reflect alone , to follow out continuously , to determine for ...
... objects of thought ; instead of forming their judgments in crowds , and receiving their chief excitement from the voices of neighbors , men are now learning to study and reflect alone , to follow out continuously , to determine for ...
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... object . He is not satisfied till he is introduced to this new world of positive demonstration and abstract truth . " Books and libraries , it is said , are a kindling place , and that they have sometimes awakened genius . Nay , this is ...
... object . He is not satisfied till he is introduced to this new world of positive demonstration and abstract truth . " Books and libraries , it is said , are a kindling place , and that they have sometimes awakened genius . Nay , this is ...
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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.