Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public EducationG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890 - 387 páginas |
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... course of education , -how useful books had been kept from them ; -and then he characterized the awfulness of the atrocities of the Spanish forces in South America in a deeply impressive manner . This celebrated speech was borne to ...
... course of education , -how useful books had been kept from them ; -and then he characterized the awfulness of the atrocities of the Spanish forces in South America in a deeply impressive manner . This celebrated speech was borne to ...
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... course of his address of welcome said : " The vain wish has been sometimes indulged , that Provi- dence would allow the Patriot , after death to return to his country , and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place ...
... course of his address of welcome said : " The vain wish has been sometimes indulged , that Provi- dence would allow the Patriot , after death to return to his country , and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place ...
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... course . A first attempt to recover the right of self - government may fail , so may a second , a third , & c . But as a younger and more in- structed race comes on , the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive , and a fourth , a ...
... course . A first attempt to recover the right of self - government may fail , so may a second , a third , & c . But as a younger and more in- structed race comes on , the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive , and a fourth , a ...
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... course of secular instruction was given than is to be obtained even in some institutions called universities in Roman Catholic countries . He was a man whose fame as a philosopher and man of letters was es- tablished in America and in ...
... course of secular instruction was given than is to be obtained even in some institutions called universities in Roman Catholic countries . He was a man whose fame as a philosopher and man of letters was es- tablished in America and in ...
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... course at the grammar school , and , in accordance with his father's advice , undertook to learn a trade . He proposed to become a maker of mathe- matical instruments . With this end in view he went to Glasgow , but , in that city - now ...
... course at the grammar school , and , in accordance with his father's advice , undertook to learn a trade . He proposed to become a maker of mathe- matical instruments . With this end in view he went to Glasgow , but , in that city - now ...
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Página 286 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 215 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 115 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 286 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 286 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 248 - 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...
Página 357 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Página 268 - No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America.
Página 62 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.