 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1868 - 568 pages
...* New England's First Fruits. Mass. Hist. Coll. I. p. 202. colony, it was made an imperative law. " To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, every township, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders,... | |
 | Tennessee. Dept. of Public Instruction - Education - 1869 - 390 pages
...therein." Here is the germ of universal education, provided and enforced by the State. In the same year, "to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our fathers," they enacted that "every township increased to the number of fifty householders, shall... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...also, that what made our Revolution a foregone conclusion was that act of the General Court, passed in May 1647, which established the system of common...end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1898 - 396 pages
...also, that what made our Revolution a foregone conclusion was that act of the General Court, passed in May, 1647, which established the system of common...end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, it is therefore ordered... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1870 - 462 pages
...conformity with these sections is -the peculiar phraseology of the memorable Colonial law of 1647, founding Common Schools, " to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers." This law obliged townships having fifty householders to "forthwith appoint one within... | |
 | University of Michigan. Board of Regents - 1837 - 1226 pages
...much learning as may enable them perfectly lo read the English tongue." " In 1647, it was ordered, "to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, .that every township. after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scripture by persuading them from the use of tongues, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors." -J Here follow clauses... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 508 pages
...character of New England. In the year 1647, an ordinance of the General Court provided as follows: "To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors : It is therefore ordered... | |
 | Criticism - 1871 - 774 pages
...and rich are the fruits of that simple statute of the governing Court of Massachusetts, ' ordered, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our fathers, that every township, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households, shall appoint... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1872 - 200 pages
...as colonists undertook to do, by ordering through the general court in 1642, a formal provision for schools, " to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our fathers, and to exclude barbarism from every family." The principles which required the governing... | |
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... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. 
