| Rhode Island - Law - 1897 - 188 pages
...declares that the " diffusion of knowledge as well as of virtue, among the people, being essential to the preservation of their rights and liberties, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to promote public schools, and to adopt all means which they may deem necessary... | |
| 1850 - 638 pages
...of the fifth chapter of the constitution of Massachusetts, he gives us the following passage : — ' Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts... | |
| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...V. — SEcT. II. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE. WISDOM and knowledge, as well as virtue, difi'used generally among the body of the people, being necessary...for the preservation of their rights and liberties ; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education, in the various parts... | |
| Massachusetts - Session laws - 1819 - 838 pages
...the advantages " of liberty, and to maintain a free government." The same instrument provides, that " Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as " these depend on spreading the opportunities and advan. " tages of education in the various... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...late Province of the Massachusetts Bay. CHAPTER V SECTION H. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, &c. , Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties; ana as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education, in the various parts... | |
| James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 230 pages
...of Massachusetts, adopted iu 1780, recognises the importance of education in the following words : " Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties ; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...late Province of the Massachusetts Bay. CHAPTER V....SECTION II. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, &c. Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties ; and as these depend OB spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts... | |
| Education - 1826 - 788 pages
...of Massachusetts, adopted in 1780, recognises the importance of education in the following words: ' Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts... | |
| Education - 1826 - 782 pages
...of Massachusetts, adopted in 1780, recognises the importance of education in the following words: ' Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused...for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts... | |
| Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall he the duty of the legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Camhridge,... | |
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