 ... 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
 | 1861 - 420 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...We hope for a security beyond the law and above the la\v, in the prevalence of enlightened and well principled moral sentiment We hope to continue and... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - Education - 1861 - 498 pages
...capacity and inereasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere, to...denunciations of religion, against immorality and erime. We hope for a security beyond the law and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1862 - 1522 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...above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well principled moral sentiment. We hope to continue and prolong the time when, in the villages and... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1862 - 236 pages
...extension of the penal code, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. We hope for a security beyond the law and above the law, in the prevalence of an enlightened and well principled public sentiment." That a proper education produces these beneficial... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - United States - 1864 - 504 pages
...their enlightenment is her best safeguard. She seeks, as Webster has said, " by general instruction to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion,...denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime". That she may succeed in thus making her institutions eternal is the prayer of every friend of liberty.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1865 - 682 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...prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment."0 In 1820 he could say, "All conscience ought to be respected;" in 1850 it is only a fanatic... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1865 - 372 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...prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment."0 In 1820 he could say, "All conscience ought to be respected;" in 1850 it is only a fanatic... | |
 | Charles Brooks - Education - 1865 - 36 pages
...property, and life, and the peace of society, are secured. By general instruction we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere, to...against immorality and crime. We hope for a security above the law and beyond the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; EI to keep good THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION. 185 sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current...opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciation of religion,*" against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and... | |
 | Henry Latham - African Americans - 1887 - 324 pages
...it as so nruch money spent on an insurance against revolution. As Daniel Webster once put it : — ' We hope for a security beyond the law and above the...of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment. Wo hope to continue and to prolong the time when in the villages and farm-houses there may be undisturbed... | |
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