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... promote learning in their respective countries . Passing over the endeavors made by the emperors of the great Roman Empire to found libraries and other institu- tions of learning , not to dwell upon the celebrated attempt of the ...
... promote learning in their respective countries . Passing over the endeavors made by the emperors of the great Roman Empire to found libraries and other institu- tions of learning , not to dwell upon the celebrated attempt of the ...
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... promote education . William Penn , the founder of Pennsylvania , had himself been instructed in a free grammar - school in England , and naturally tried to advance letters in his colony . Perhaps he was the more earnest in doing so ...
... promote education . William Penn , the founder of Pennsylvania , had himself been instructed in a free grammar - school in England , and naturally tried to advance letters in his colony . Perhaps he was the more earnest in doing so ...
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... promote the undertaking . The academy , founded about the year 1749 , became the celebrated University of Pennsylvania . Frank- lin , writing to the first president of King's College , now Columbia , thus expressed himself : " I think ...
... promote the undertaking . The academy , founded about the year 1749 , became the celebrated University of Pennsylvania . Frank- lin , writing to the first president of King's College , now Columbia , thus expressed himself : " I think ...
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... promotion of science and literature . Knowledge is , in every country , the surest basis of public happi- ness . In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ...
... promotion of science and literature . Knowledge is , in every country , the surest basis of public happi- ness . In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ...
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... promotion of science and literature will contribute to the security of a free government : in the progress of our deliberations , we shall not lose sight of objects so worthy of our regard . " About a year before making this speech ...
... promotion of science and literature will contribute to the security of a free government : in the progress of our deliberations , we shall not lose sight of objects so worthy of our regard . " About a year before making this speech ...
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Page 15 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 100 - The last right we shall mention, regards the freedom of the press. The importance of this consists, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal sentiments on the administration of Government...
Page 16 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Page 98 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 42 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Page 11 - ... this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defence of their privileges.
Page 72 - It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources (the public domain) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self-government.
Page 133 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 22 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 24 - I can not presume it to be unseasonable to invite your attention to the advantages of superadding to the means of education provided by the several States a seminary of learning...