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Page 31 - Guy" Hospital, the founder of which a family relative, "John (Thomas?) Guy," my nephew John Guy Vassar had the honor of being named after. Seeing this institution first suggested the idea of devoting a portion of my estate to some charitable purpose, and about this period took quite an interest in a niece of mine, Lydia Booth, who was then engaged in a small way in the tuition of children resulting in after years in the opening of a female seminary in Poughkeepsie being the first of kind excepting...
Page 3 - It's to build and endow a college for young women which shall be to them what Yale and Harvard are to young men.
Page 202 - Letters on the Ministry, Ritual, and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Page 25 - Set off to seek my fortune with 6/ in my pockett, two corse East India Muslin Shirts, a pair of woolen Socks, Scow Skin Shoes, all tied up in a cotton bandana Handkerchief.
Page 7 - ... Washington wrote lie, lye ; liar, lyar ; ceiling, cieling ; oil, oyl ; and blue, blew, as in his boyhood he had learned to do from this book. Even in his carefully prepared will, "lye" was the form in which he wrote the word. It must be acknowledged that, aside from these errors which he had been taught, through his whole life Washington was a non-conformist as regarded the King's English : struggle as he undoubtedly did, the instinct of correct spelling was absent, and thus every now and then...
Page 63 - What I regard as an essential element of our Institution is the perfect Control of the pupils during the period of their instruction in the College...
Page 203 - A vindication of certain passages in a discourse on occasion of the death of Dr. Priestley.
Page 10 - Let our pupils see and know that beyond every difference there is, after all, but one God, one gospel; and that the spires of whatsoever church forever point toward one heaven. And upon this point again, without disparagement to any other religious source, permit me to add that the strongest incentives to goodness, and the most valuable religious tendencies, will be found to flow most of all, like an emanation, from the presence of gifted, cultivated Christian women.
Page 82 - SMITHSON. The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 5 - I / tain, that if we only follow on in the old beaten paths, we will make (( no progress. We do no more than others have done before us. We. are only copyists, and not progressionists. My motto is progress.