 ... 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...  Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany - Page 2841800Full view - About this book
 | James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - Education - 1926 - 844 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican...mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome. For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 792 pages
...to be educated. He feared what experience has shown he had cause to fear. He said they "contracted principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind." George Washington also had ideas about immigration that are good to-day. "My opinion with respect to... | |
 | Edwin Emery Slosson - Education - 1921 - 366 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican...mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome; for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have... | |
 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting, too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican...mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome ; for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have... | |
 | 1901 - 488 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting, too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican...of mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome." He said much more than this ; but let me pause here a moment to consider this sage utterance. Times... | |
 | Eugene Ernst Prussing - Presidents - 1927 - 694 pages
...talents, who have heretofore been sent abroad and imbibed, often before their minds were formed, " principles unfriendly to Republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind ", and also " habits of dissipation and extravagance." For this purpose he gives the fifty shares in... | |
 | Karlin Capper Johnson, Brooks-Bright Foundation, John Middleton Frankland - Great Britain - 1928 - 148 pages
...they had imbibed any adequate idea of the happiness of their own; contracting too frequently . . . principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind." As we read these words, written by Washington in the wisdom of mature experience, and recall the fact... | |
 | Science - 1903 - 600 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican...mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome; for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance but principles unfriendly to republican...mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome. For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - Law - 1993 - 224 pages
...adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance but principles unfriendly to republican...mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome. For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have... | |
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