 ... by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue, and of knowledge, in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment....  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 2281861Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1929
...capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere; to...beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of an enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment. — DAA[IEL WEBSTER. SCHOOL LIFE Volume XIV Number... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1853 - 714 pages
...capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to...well-principled moral sentiment. We hope to continue, and to prolong the • time, when, in the villages and farm houses of NewEngland, there may be undisturbed... | |
 | Kenneth Thompson - Education - 2006 - 824 pages
...oration, Daniel Webster stated: By general instruction we seek as far as possible to purify the whole atmosphere, to keep good sentiments uppermost, and...denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. Likewise, the historian Lecky said : l By giving men a clearer view of their true interests it [education]... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 548 pages
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 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1902 - 566 pages
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 | Robert Marion La Follette - Inventors - 1903 - 550 pages
...capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to...beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of an enlightened and well principled moral sentitilent. . . And knowing that our government rests directly... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1848 - 642 pages
...enlarging the capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruclion, we seek, as far a« possible, to purify the whole...the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well ae the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1848
...capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere, to...feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the Iaw, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond... | |
 | California, California. Legislature - 1864 - 1004 pages
...capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole- moral atmosphere, to...feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the ¡aw and the denunciations of religion, against immoral! tj- and crime. We hope for a security beyond... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - Education - 1901 - 392 pages
...his Plymouth oration, said : " By general instruction we seek as far as possible to purify the whole atmosphere, to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and public opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion against immorality... | |
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