 | South America - 1825 - 482 pages
...sacred and indispensible, as the usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Almost the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 918 pages
...sacred and indispensable as the usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Almost the first, perhaps the very first. instrument for the...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - Christianity - 1826 - 806 pages
...between distant regions and multitudes of men, are among the most important means of improvement. But the first, perhaps the very first, instrument for the...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of- human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential.'' REVENUE. — The revenue... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 884 pages
...sacred and indispensable as the usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Almost the first, perhaps the very first, instrument for the...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 902 pages
...the usurpation of power not granted is criminal anil odious. Almost the first, perhaps the very nrst, instrument for the improvement of the condition of...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 788 pages
...usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Among the first, perhaps the very first instruments for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments, of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 782 pages
...usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Among the first, perhaps the very first instruments for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments, of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...as sacred and indispensable as the usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement...adapted to the wants, the comforts and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential. So convinced of this was... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) - 1828 - 450 pages
...as sacred and indispensible as the usurpation of power not granted is criminal and odious. Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of man, is knowledge ; and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts,... | |
 | American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Education - 1837 - 118 pages
...duties assigned by the author of our existence to social, no less than to individual man." * * * " Perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement...adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, Public Institutions and Seminaries of learning are essential." JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. ,... | |
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Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge ; and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries... 
