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... population of the land , a rich variety of works , eminently calculated to expand and invigorate the mind , improve the heart , and lay the foundation of real worth of character . 2. IMPORTANCE OF SUCH AN INSTITUTION . If we trace the ...
... population of the land , a rich variety of works , eminently calculated to expand and invigorate the mind , improve the heart , and lay the foundation of real worth of character . 2. IMPORTANCE OF SUCH AN INSTITUTION . If we trace the ...
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... population , than any other set of men that ever lived ; and American publishers and printers have never been surpassed in the energy and enterprise with which they have wielded the press . Our hundred Colleges , our Academies , High ...
... population , than any other set of men that ever lived ; and American publishers and printers have never been surpassed in the energy and enterprise with which they have wielded the press . Our hundred Colleges , our Academies , High ...
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... population to a vast amount . They are cut off , in a great measure , from the use of books and other vehicles of informa- tion , circulated in their native tongue at home , and no adequate provision , if any at all , is here made for ...
... population to a vast amount . They are cut off , in a great measure , from the use of books and other vehicles of informa- tion , circulated in their native tongue at home , and no adequate provision , if any at all , is here made for ...
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... population . And it is highly probable , judging from the data which are accessible , that a greater number of volumes , in proportion to the population , are annually circulated here , than in the mother country , and the ratio is ...
... population . And it is highly probable , judging from the data which are accessible , that a greater number of volumes , in proportion to the population , are annually circulated here , than in the mother country , and the ratio is ...
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... Population . Private Consumption , & c . Public Consumption . The Committee , in speaking of the happy effects of the plan of rendering good books generally accessible by their cheapness , suggested an enlargement of the sphere of the ...
... Population . Private Consumption , & c . Public Consumption . The Committee , in speaking of the happy effects of the plan of rendering good books generally accessible by their cheapness , suggested an enlargement of the sphere of the ...
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Page 7 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Page 7 - The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice 1 And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 7 - 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 to shake the foundation of the fabric...
Page 7 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 7 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in...