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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 447
edited by - 1832
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The North American Review, Volume 19

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent. in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle...We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and ii sense of character, by enlarging the capacity, and incre;isin'_' tin sphere of intellectual enjoyment....
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A Discourse, Delivered Before the Honourable Legislature of Vermont, on the ...

John Lindsey - Election sermons - 1822 - 40 pages
...peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge, in an early age." The benefits resulting to society, from academies, colleges and universities, are in proportion to...
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Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and ...

Adam Hodgson - Indians of North America - 1823 - 354 pages
...the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent in some measure the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge at an early age. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened...
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The Religious Miscellany: Containing Information Relative to the ..., Volume 2

1823 - 426 pages
...the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent in some measure the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge at an early age. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened...
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Letters to the Hon. William Prescott, LL.D., on the Free Schools of New ...

James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 230 pages
...peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle...moral atmosphere; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 23

Religion - 1824 - 884 pages
...the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent in some measure the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge at an early age. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened...
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Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and ...

Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 492 pages
...peace of society, are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge at an early age. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1824 - 890 pages
...peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary, and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge at an early age.' We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle...to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense ol character, by enlarging the capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments

Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle...moral atmosphere; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the...
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