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" I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this... "
The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Legal arguments and diplomatic ... - Page 135
by Daniel Webster - 1903
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 3

Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1849 - 566 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 doctrines...instructors and teachers in the College shall take pains to instill into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance...
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Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849

Robert Baird - Canada - 1850 - 428 pages
...reasoned that his expressing it to be his desire, that the education given should be such as would instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, amounted to a recognition of the Scriptures as a text-book — inasmuch as it is the testimony even...
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Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Associate Justice of the Supreme ..., Volume 2

William Wetmore Story - Judges - 1851 - 696 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 doctrines...and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce.' Here, then, we have the reason given; and the question is not, whether it is satisfactory to us or...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 20

Universalism - 1852 - 572 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 doctrines...instructors and teachers in the College shall take pains to instill into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance...
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Travels in South and North America

Alexander Marjoribanks - America - 1853 - 504 pages
...sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce." The following are the words of the will in regard to this injunction : — " Secondly, I enjoin and...
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The Girard College and Its Founder: Containing the Biography of Mr. Girard ...

Henry W. Arey - Orphans - 1856 - 106 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 doctrines...to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest •principles.of morality, so that on their entrance into active life, they may from inclination and...
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Lives of American Merchants, Volume 1

Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1856 - 650 pages
...among 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 doctrines...instructors and teachers in the college, shall take pains to instill into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance...
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Lives of American Merchants, Volume 1

Freeman Hunt - Merchants - 1858 - 652 pages
...among 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 doctrines...instructors and teachers in the college, shall take pains to instill into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance...
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Self-made Men

Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...opinion among them, he desires to keep the 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. His desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instill into...
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Essays by Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland

William Hanna - 1858 - 390 pages
...doctrines and sectarian controversies are so apt to produce. My desire is, that the teachers should take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest morality, so that on their entrance into active life they may from inclination and habit evince benevolence...
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