Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 sider |
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Side 29
... effect this great and necessary work let one of the first acts of the new Congress be to estab- lish within the district to be allotted for them , a Federal university , into which the youth of the United States shall be received after ...
... effect this great and necessary work let one of the first acts of the new Congress be to estab- lish within the district to be allotted for them , a Federal university , into which the youth of the United States shall be received after ...
Side 30
... effects may not then a nation expect from a concourse of her best sons at the temple of wisdom ! Society in the sweet enjoyment of wisdom , literature , and the many social pleasures of an academic life will create a mutual endearment ...
... effects may not then a nation expect from a concourse of her best sons at the temple of wisdom ! Society in the sweet enjoyment of wisdom , literature , and the many social pleasures of an academic life will create a mutual endearment ...
Side 33
... effect , they will be so good as to excuse my using them as the medium for disclosing these my intentions ; because it appears neces- sary that the funds for the establishment and support of the institution should be known to the ...
... effect , they will be so good as to excuse my using them as the medium for disclosing these my intentions ; because it appears neces- sary that the funds for the establishment and support of the institution should be known to the ...
Side 34
... effect , provided it should be adopted on a scale so liberal as to extend to and embrace a complete system of education . I had little hesitation in giving the Federal City a preference over all other places for the institution , for ...
... effect , provided it should be adopted on a scale so liberal as to extend to and embrace a complete system of education . I had little hesitation in giving the Federal City a preference over all other places for the institution , for ...
Side 37
... effect , I inclose you an extract of a letter from me to the governor of Vir- ginia on this subject , and a copy of the resolutions of the legislature of that State in consequence thereof . I have not the smallest doubt that this ...
... effect , I inclose you an extract of a letter from me to the governor of Vir- ginia on this subject , and a copy of the resolutions of the legislature of that State in consequence thereof . I have not the smallest doubt that this ...
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Side 40 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Side 33 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways, by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights...
Side 50 - Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.
Side 33 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Side 41 - Amongst the motives to such an institution, the assimilation of the principles, opinions, and manners of our countrymen by the common education of a portion of our youth from every quarter well deserves attention. The more homogeneous our citizens can be made in these particulars the greater will be our prospect of permanent union...
Side 43 - That as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purposes of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting, too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government...
Side 76 - ... unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.
Side 37 - River shares to the same object at the same place ; but, considering the source from whence they were derived, I have, in a letter I am writing to the executive of Virginia on this subject, left the application of them to a seminary within the State, to be located by the legislature.
Side 89 - Neptune's hips ; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors ! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, — viewing his...
Side 43 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising Empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.