 We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments,...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 2701848Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against...against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. ' " I rejoice, that every man in this community may call all property his own, so far as lie has occasion... | |
 | James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 230 pages
...that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabrick may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow,...against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. " I rejoice, that every man in this community may call all property his own, so far as he has occasion... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...rests on that trust, that by the diffusion 0f general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against...against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. The hours of this day are rapidly flying, and the occasion will soon be passed. Neither we nor our... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. We know, sir, that at the present time an attempt is making in the English Parliament to provide by law... | |
 | Christian education - 1831 - 716 pages
...as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We rejoice that every man in this community may call...religious instruction, and the elements of knowledge. ТЫз celestial and this earthly light he is entitled to by the fundamental laws."* MAINE. Every town... | |
 | American education society - 1831 - 378 pages
...as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We rejoice that every man in this community may call...for it to furnish for himself and his children, the hlessings of religious instruction, and the elements of knowledge. This celestial and this earthly... | |
 | Clergy - 1831 - 352 pages
...censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We rejoice lhat every man in this community may call all property...for it to furnish for himself and his children, the hlessings of religious instruction, and the elements of knowledge. This celestial and this earthly... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness." pages 209, 210. " I rejoice, Sir, that every man in this community may call all property his own, so... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...that, by the dinuMon of general knowledge ana good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric mav be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow,...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.'' (Journal of Dtbatfs in ihr Com'tníion to rei-ise the Constitution o/Masmchmttts, 1821, page 245.)... | |
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