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The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Legal arguments and diplomatic ... - Page 135
by Daniel Webster - 1903
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The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts ..., Volume 9

Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1832 - 446 pages
...amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement, which clashing...to produce; my desire is, that all the instructors a»d teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest...
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Journal of Education, Volume 1, Issue 1

Education - 1831 - 106 pages
...The reason assigned for this provision is, the anxiety of the testator, that the pupils should be ' free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce.' The motives which led to so extraordinary an act might, perhaps, be assigned without impeaching the...
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The Millennial Harbinger, Volume 3

Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1832 - 656 pages
...doctrines and sectarian controversy ere apt to 'produce; my desire is, that all the instructers an^ teachers in the college shall take pains to instil...into the minds of the scholars the purest principles oj morality; so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, yV&jn inclination anil habit, evince...
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American Annals of Education

William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1832 - 644 pages
...The reason assigned for this provision is, the anxiety of the testator, that the pupils should be ' free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce.' The motives which led to so extraordinary an act might, perhaps, be assigned without impeaching the...
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Heidelbergische [afterw.] Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur, Part 1

1834 - 636 pages
...amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from Uns bequest, free from the excitement, which clashing...instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instill into the minds of the scholars the purest principles oj morality , so that, on their entrance...
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A Constitution and Plan of Education for Girard College for Orphans: With an ...

Francis Lieber - Orphanages - 1834 - 242 pages
...amongst them, he desires to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines...and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce." He wished then, the scholars of the college to be nursed up under the blessing and happy influence...
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volume 12

Pennsylvania - 1834 - 438 pages
...moral discipline which makes men virtuous and happy at their own fire sides. "My desire is," says he, "that all the instructors and teachers in the college...pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the pure principles of morality.so that on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination...
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A System of Education for the Girard College for Orphans: Respectfully ...

David McClure, Native of Philadelphia - Education - 1838 - 454 pages
...attain the important object happily expressed in Mr. Girard's Will, in the following terms, viz. " My desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains [by precept and example] to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principle* of morality,...
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The United States of North America as They are: Not as They are Generally ...

Thomas Brothers - Finance - 1840 - 538 pages
...moral discipline which makes men virtuous and happy at their own firesides. " My desire is," says he, "that all the instructors and teachers in the college...pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the pure principles of morality, so that on their entrance into active life they may, from inclination...
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America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive: By J. S. Buckingham, Volume 2

James Silk Buckingham - Travel - 1841 - 590 pages
...moral discipline which makes men virtuous and happy at their own firesides. " My desire is," says he, " that all the instructors and teachers in the College...pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the pure principles of morality, so that on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination...
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