 | Washington Irving - 1862
...or morality is a necessary spring * under t forms, a J the | from 1 usual and natural 1[ of its use of popular government. — The rule indeed extends...knowledge. — In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.]... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 776 sider
...of free government. Who, that is a sincere fricnd to it, can look with indifference upon attempt*l to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then,...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | George Washington - 1862 - 30 sider
...sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric 1 Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, itja, essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1863
...time lost by the young. We close our report with a sentence from Washington's Farewell Address : " It is substantially true that virtue or morality is...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."... | |
 | United States. War Department, Oliver Diefendorf - 1864 - 1183 sider
...experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. "It is substantially true that virtue or morality...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 831 sider
...your virtuous deeds. GEORGE WASHINGTON. " Promote," he says, " 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."... | |
 | 1865
...is saved is lost WILLIAM PENH. Inttruetions to Council. Promote, 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.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1865
...is saved is lost WILLIAM PENH. Instructions to Council. Promote, as an object of primary importance, government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 494 sider
...friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? 12. Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867
...friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? 12. Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
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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... 
