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... . " Washington's Farewell Address . NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE , No. 650 BROADWAY . Three and a Half Sheets . HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LIBRARY NOTE . Correspondence. 1837 . Front Cover.
... . " Washington's Farewell Address . NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE , No. 650 BROADWAY . Three and a Half Sheets . HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LIBRARY NOTE . Correspondence. 1837 . Front Cover.
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... primary importance , institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge . " Washington's Farewell Address . NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE , No. 650 BROADWAY . EducP 305.11 2001-2 1837 G. F. Hopkins & Son , 1837 .
... primary importance , institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge . " Washington's Farewell Address . NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE , No. 650 BROADWAY . EducP 305.11 2001-2 1837 G. F. Hopkins & Son , 1837 .
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... published . It will regard the author or publisher of a useful volume as a co - worker , and a public benefactor . And any individual who will employ the pen or the press in extending the influence of knowledge and virtue , will find in ...
... published . It will regard the author or publisher of a useful volume as a co - worker , and a public benefactor . And any individual who will employ the pen or the press in extending the influence of knowledge and virtue , will find in ...
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... published by this Society . The other department of the Society's labours , the circulation of good books , has not been less efficient and useful than this . For more than a century , it has been supplying the clergy with cheap ...
... published by this Society . The other department of the Society's labours , the circulation of good books , has not been less efficient and useful than this . For more than a century , it has been supplying the clergy with cheap ...
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... published in different languages , and very extensively circulated . One great object of the Society was , to promote the progress of Chris- tian Knowledge in Foreign lands . For this purpose they established Fo- reign Committees , of ...
... published in different languages , and very extensively circulated . One great object of the Society was , to promote the progress of Chris- tian Knowledge in Foreign lands . For this purpose they established Fo- reign Committees , of ...
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Side 7 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Side 7 - The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice 1 And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Side 7 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric...
Side 7 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Side 7 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in...