Letters on National Subjects, Auxiliary to Universal Education, and Scientific Knowledge: Addressed to Burwell Bassett, Late a Member of the House of Representatives, and James Monroe, President of the United States of Americaauthor, 1820 - 60 páginas |
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... mental feast to every inquiring mind ? If the student , the scholar and the christian may anticipate joy at the prospect contemplated , is there no room for Ameri- eans to exult with patriotic feelings , at the distinction which this ...
... mental feast to every inquiring mind ? If the student , the scholar and the christian may anticipate joy at the prospect contemplated , is there no room for Ameri- eans to exult with patriotic feelings , at the distinction which this ...
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... mental harvest ; a nation's future abundance de- pends upon the well timed influence of wisdom , operating like " genial dew and fruitful showers , " at the critical moment on which , the most important future consequences may depend ...
... mental harvest ; a nation's future abundance de- pends upon the well timed influence of wisdom , operating like " genial dew and fruitful showers , " at the critical moment on which , the most important future consequences may depend ...
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... mental energy depends ? Emancipated from the trammels of infancy , and past the chaos of a revolution , you have arisen to your place and taken rank among the nations . You possess principles which only need perpetuation to give ...
... mental energy depends ? Emancipated from the trammels of infancy , and past the chaos of a revolution , you have arisen to your place and taken rank among the nations . You possess principles which only need perpetuation to give ...
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... mental , as well as animal strength . When we consider that children , if stinted in their food are weak and dwarfish in their growth , and ever after subject to constitutional imbecility . Thus we may appreciate the weak . ness ...
... mental , as well as animal strength . When we consider that children , if stinted in their food are weak and dwarfish in their growth , and ever after subject to constitutional imbecility . Thus we may appreciate the weak . ness ...
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... mental pursuits , that in early ages , united pride with the possession of knowledge , and perverted its best objects to selfishness . Thus practical mathematics were contemned ; and YET they teach men to measure the earth and span the ...
... mental pursuits , that in early ages , united pride with the possession of knowledge , and perverted its best objects to selfishness . Thus practical mathematics were contemned ; and YET they teach men to measure the earth and span the ...
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Página 40 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Página 30 - Of all that live, and move, and breathe, Man only rises o'er his birth ; He looks above, around, beneath, At once the heir of heaven and earth : Force, cunning, speed, which nature gave The various tribes throughout her plan, Life to enjoy, from death to save, — These are the lowest powers of man. From strength to strength he travels on : He leaves the lingering brute behind ; And when a few short years are gone, He soars a disembodied mind : Beyond the grave his course sublime Destined through...
Página 30 - ... to strength he travels on; He leaves the lingering Brute behind And when a few short years are gone, He soars, a disembodied mind. Destined his future course sublime Through nobler, brighter paths to run; With him, the final end of time, Is but eternity begun. What guides him in his high persuit, Opens, illumines, cheers his way? Discerns th' immortal from the brute, God's image from the mould of clay? 'Tis knowledge, knowledge of the soul, Is power and liberty and peace; And, while the celestial...
Página 30 - Reigns through the deep with quenchless rage ; Parent and young, unweaned from blood, Are still the same from age to age. Of all that live, and move, and breathe, Man only rises o'er his birth ; He looks above, around, beneath, At once the heir of heaven and earth : Force, cunning, speed, which Nature gave The various tribes throughout her plan, Life to enjoy, from death to save, These are the lowest powers of Man. From strength to strength...
Página 40 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Página 18 - The Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, mindful of the benefits which the City of London received in her ample share in the...
Página 19 - I was looking at the map of NORTH COLUMBIA, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Under an introversion of mind arising from this view of the nation, I...