 ... 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
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 386 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,... | |
 | James N. Patrick - English language - 1903 - 220 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...opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciation of religion, against immorality and crime. Education, to accomplish the ends of good government,... | |
 | Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins - Inventors - 1906 - 562 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 sentimerit. . . And knowing that our government rests directly... | |
 | Ontario. Department of Education - Education - 1907 - 344 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 do not. indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or Statesmen... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 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... | |
 | La Salle Extension University - Commerce - 1909 - 514 pages
...purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to ke good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and t denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. ^ hope for a security beyond the law, and... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - African Americans - 1910 - 1150 pages
...Plymouth oration in 1822 : " 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." : This necessity for education has been felt in all parts o the nation, and the whole subject is reasoned... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1914 - 788 pages
...intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole mora) atmosphere; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and...the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well ať the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1915 - 410 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 wellprincipled moral sentiment. . . . And knowing that our government rests directly... | |
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