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| Self-culture - 1895 - 710 pages
...mutual conciliation." In his last will Washington, repeating the same regret, said : " For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised,...all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and state prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or, indeed, ought... | |
| Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...localities in a great university, which he hoped to see founded at Washington. In his will he said, " It has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire—thereby to do away with local... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - Federal aid to higher education - 1898 - 124 pages
...forth in Washington's last will and testament: They have devised a plan upon a liberal scale, which has a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire. //They have established a university in this central part of the United States whither young men are... | |
| Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...for such a university at the national capital should be " devised on a liberal scale," and that it " would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through...would or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.1' iie especially mentions "the principles of politics and good government " as among those... | |
| Southern Educational Association - Education - 1899 - 352 pages
...and to obtain a knowledge of the sciences." In his will, published just a hundred years ago, he says: "It has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised...all parts of this rising Empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought... | |
| Washington Academy of Sciences - Science - 1899 - 428 pages
...devising a portion of his property for the founding of a National University here, he expressed his " ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale,...all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would or indeed ought to... | |
| Leila Herbert - 1899 - 230 pages
...the true and genuine liberties of 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 a tendency to spend systamatic ideas through all parts of this rising Empire, thereby to do away local attachments... | |
| 1899 - 342 pages
...Washington in matters pertaining to history and education. Devise a plan on a liberal scale which shall " have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire." These are not my words, but those of the greatest American. I would suggest that you establish a Maryland... | |
| American literature - 1900 - 1126 pages
...which thereafter are rarely overcome. Fur these reason» it lias been rny ardent wish to яки я plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread eyslamatic ideas through all parts of this rising umpire, thereby to do away local attachments and... | |
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