 ... 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 - 1849 - 210 pages
...increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possibly, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good...the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well »s the censures of the law, und the denunciation« of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pages
...sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, so far as possible, to purify the moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost,...of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security beyond... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...institutions, possessing more or less funds, a regular body of teachers, and the power of conferring deand to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion,...enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment. We hfipe to continue and prolong tne time, when, in the villages and farm-houses of New England, there... | |
 | Education - 1849 - 216 pages
...the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, topurify the whole moral atmosphere; to keep good sentiments...censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, ag.iinst immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1851 - 790 pages
...conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. 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 law, against immorality and crime. And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that... | |
 | John Gibson (of Kilmarnock.) - 1851 - 192 pages
...sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, so far as possible, to purify the moral atmosphere, to keep good sentiments uppermost,...strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censure of law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1853 - 702 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 128 pages
...Heaven, now fiercer by despair." . Once he could say, — " By general instruction, we seek as far as possible to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to...enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment." * In 1820 he could say, " All conscience ought to be respected ; " in 1850 it is only a fanatic who... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Sermons, American - 1853 - 424 pages
...Heaven, now fiercer by despair." Once he could say, — " By general instruction, we seek as far as possible to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to...enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment." * In 1820 he could say, " All conscience ought to be respected ; " in 1850 it is only a fanatic who... | |
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 116 pages
...Heaven, now fiercer by despair." Once he could say,— " By general instruction, we seek as far as possible to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to...enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment." * In 1820 he could say, " All conscience ought to be respected;" in 1850 it is only a fanatic who heeds... | |
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