 ... 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
 | 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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