Occasional Addresses: And the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the Rebellion |
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... render it a natural inquiry , why this scheme has been delayed so long . The present age is characterized by a powerful impulse to- wards a reform of the institutions of society . Men have been made more conversant with the principles ...
... render it a natural inquiry , why this scheme has been delayed so long . The present age is characterized by a powerful impulse to- wards a reform of the institutions of society . Men have been made more conversant with the principles ...
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... render the University subservient to two great purposes . The first relates to the regular education of youth through all the branches of Science and Letters . The second is not less important . It is to open their halls to the free use ...
... render the University subservient to two great purposes . The first relates to the regular education of youth through all the branches of Science and Letters . The second is not less important . It is to open their halls to the free use ...
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... render them useful to the community at large . They will be open , as I have before stated , to any persons who may feel an interest in the prosecution of the studies to which they refer , under regulations that will be made known ...
... render them useful to the community at large . They will be open , as I have before stated , to any persons who may feel an interest in the prosecution of the studies to which they refer , under regulations that will be made known ...
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... render the whole course of education as little expen- sive to the students as it was possible to make it , and have , therefore , fixed the annual charge of each student , who enters with a view to the University degrees , at the sum of ...
... render the whole course of education as little expen- sive to the students as it was possible to make it , and have , therefore , fixed the annual charge of each student , who enters with a view to the University degrees , at the sum of ...
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... render it as largely tributary to the benefit of this com- munity as possible . If there should be rejections of candi- dates , in accordance with this determination , it is hoped that parents will be reconciled to the necessity of ...
... render it as largely tributary to the benefit of this com- munity as possible . If there should be rejections of candi- dates , in accordance with this determination , it is hoped that parents will be reconciled to the necessity of ...
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Page 448 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 115 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 122 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 351 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 124 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave...
Page 146 - I, AB, do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the Queen's Highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other Her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual and ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal ; and that no foreign Prince.
Page 296 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 143 - Knight, late Baron of Baltimore, in our said Kingdom of Ireland, treading in the steps of his Father, being animated with a laudable, and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the Territories of our Empire...
Page 462 - Mr. MASON observed, not only that the present Confederation was deficient in not providing for coercion and punishment against delinquent States ; but argued very cogently, that punishment could not in the nature of things be executed on the States collectively, and therefore that such a government was necessary as could directly operate on individuals, and would punish those only whose guilt required it.
Page 461 - States to the contrary notwithstanding; and that if any State, or any body of men in any State shall oppose or prevent the carrying into execution such acts or treaties...