 ... 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
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 124 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...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. We hope to continue and prolong the time, when,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 208 pages
...capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far 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. We hope to continue and prolong the time, when,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Education - 1853 - 590 pages
...sphere of intellectual enjoyment. " ' By general instruction, we seek so far as possible to purify the moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost,...the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled or moral sentiment. We hope to continue and prolong the time, when, in the villages and farmhouses... | |
 | George William Rusden - Church and education - 1853 - 382 pages
...sphere of intellectual enjoyment. " By general instruction, we seek so far as possible to purify the moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost,...immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law,-and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled or moral sentiment. We... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 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 sentiment. We hope to continue and prolong the time, when,... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 406 pages
...sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek as far as possible, to purify the moral atmosphere, to keep good sentiments uppermost,...opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciation of religion, against immorality and crime. \V"e hope for a security, beyond the law, and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Religion in the public schools - 1854 - 314 pages
...instruction, we seek as far as possible to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiment uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling...the denunciations of religion, against immorality anc crime. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Education - 1854 - 304 pages
...instruction, we seek as far as possible to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiment uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling...the denunciations of religion, against immorality anc crime. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 464 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 wellprincipled moral sentiment."* * Debate in the Mass. Convention, Dec. 5,1820. "Journal," uli sup. p. 145 ; erroneously printed 245.... | |
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