Contributions to American Educational HistoryHerbert Baxter Adams U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 |
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... original Virginia idea of political education , which made Williamsburg a school of states- men who were fitted in the college - capital to prepare the so - called " Virginia plan , " from which our present Constitution grew . It is the ...
... original Virginia idea of political education , which made Williamsburg a school of states- men who were fitted in the college - capital to prepare the so - called " Virginia plan , " from which our present Constitution grew . It is the ...
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... original project for a university at Henrico . The plan was broken off by the death of its chief advocate and promoter , Mr. Edward Palmer . But the idea of a university for Virginia was not lost ; it slumbered on during the next ...
... original project for a university at Henrico . The plan was broken off by the death of its chief advocate and promoter , Mr. Edward Palmer . But the idea of a university for Virginia was not lost ; it slumbered on during the next ...
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... original trustees , also the first annual rector and president of the college for life . He was a vigorous , aggressive Scotchman , and held his presidential office for fifty years , dying in 1743. The charter appointed the Bishop of ...
... original trustees , also the first annual rector and president of the college for life . He was a vigorous , aggressive Scotchman , and held his presidential office for fifty years , dying in 1743. The charter appointed the Bishop of ...
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... original way by the Rev. Dr. William Stith , the historian of Virginia , professor in the college in 1731 , and who was commissary of the Bishop of London and president of the college from 1752 to 1755. His work was first published at ...
... original way by the Rev. Dr. William Stith , the historian of Virginia , professor in the college in 1731 , and who was commissary of the Bishop of London and president of the college from 1752 to 1755. His work was first published at ...
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... original centre around which educational institutions were planted . There was no town in " Middle Plantation old fields " at the time the college was built . Simply a church in Bruton Parish and a scattered settlement , with an archaic ...
... original centre around which educational institutions were planted . There was no town in " Middle Plantation old fields " at the time the college was built . Simply a church in Bruton Parish and a scattered settlement , with an archaic ...
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Page 66 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 59 - ... convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices...
Page 33 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and...
Page 40 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men ; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume ; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Page 56 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince, that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Page 51 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Page 67 - Harvard, the affirmative of the thesis, whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.
Page 13 - ... a primary object of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?