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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science - Page 321
by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1864
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The North American Review, Volume 19

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system...against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. ' " I rejoice, that every man in this community may call all property his own, so far as lie has occasion...
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Letters to the Hon. William Prescott, LL.D., on the Free Schools of New ...

James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 150 pages
...will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system...knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabrick may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining...
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Letters to the Hon. William Prescott, LL.D., on the Free Schools of New ...

James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 230 pages
...that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabrick may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow,...against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. " I rejoice, that every man in this community may call all property his own, so far as he has occasion...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...'will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system...government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion 0f general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments

Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system...against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. We know, that at the present time, an attempt is making in the English Parliament to provide by law...
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Remarks on the Life and Writings of Daniel Webster of Massachusetts

George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness." pages 209, 210. " I rejoice, Sir, that every man in this community may call all property his own, so...
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The Quarterly Journal of Education, Volume 2

Education - 1831 - 424 pages
...will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.' — Journal of Debates in the Convention to revise the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1821, p. 245....
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 12

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...men to be philosophers or statesmen ; out we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of government rests on that trust, that, by the diffusion...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness." (Journal of Dthaltt in the Convention to revise the Constitution of Maisaclnuettt, 1821, page 245.)...
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...that, by the dinuMon of general knowledge ana good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric mav be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow,...the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.'' (Journal of Dtbatfs in ihr Com'tníion to rei-ise the Constitution o/Masmchmttts, 1821, page 245.)...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 12

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 622 pages
...statesmen ; bul we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of government resls on lhat trust, that, by the diffusion of general knowledge...good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric mav be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against Ihe slow but sure undermining...
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