 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 634 pages
...Potomac company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...under the auspices of the general government, if that goverument should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1889 - 730 pages
...of a university, to bo established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the anspices of the General Government, if that Government should...University. Here was the first suggestion of that noble Hue of public policy subsequently adopted in 1S46 by our General Government in relation to the Smithsonian... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 456 pages
...Potomac Company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such Seminary is established, and funds arising for these shares... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Grottoes (Va.) - 1871 - 466 pages
...Potomac Company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such Seminary is established, and funds arising for these shares... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 460 pages
...Potomac Company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such Seminary is established, and funds arising for these shares... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1890 - 372 pages
...Washington bequeathed fifty shares of stock held in the Potomac Company2 " toward the endowment of a university to be established within the limits of...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it."3 But as the Government took no energetic action in the matter nothing ever... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 982 pages
...(under the aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia), toward the endowment of a university, to lie established within the limits of the District of Columbia,...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it; and, until such a seminary is established, and the funds arising on these... | |
 | 1898 - 1146 pages
...aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia) toward the endowment of a university to be established in the District of Columbia under the auspices of the...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it ; and until such a seminary is established and the funds arising on these... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - Education - 1872 - 252 pages
...the shares of the Potomac Company, " towards the endowment of a University to be established within the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the...Government, if that Government should , incline to extend a fostering hand towards it " 4. To the several propositions to this end, which at various dates more... | |
 | Mary Clemmer - Washington (D.C.) - 1873 - 634 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia) toward the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it. And until such Seminary is established and the funds arising from these shares... | |
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Item. I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia,... 
