Contributions to American Educational HistoryHerbert Baxter Adams U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 - Education |
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... Instruction .. Professor Hugh Jones .. Origin of Williamsburg Plan of the City Appearance of the College A Picture of the Town and Capitol ..... Town and College A School of Statesmen . Washington made Surveyor by William and Mary ...
... Instruction .. Professor Hugh Jones .. Origin of Williamsburg Plan of the City Appearance of the College A Picture of the Town and Capitol ..... Town and College A School of Statesmen . Washington made Surveyor by William and Mary ...
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... instruction , he said that Virginia pursued " the same course that is taken in England out of towns , every man , according to his ability , instructing his children . We have forty - eight parishes , and our ministry are well paid ...
... instruction , he said that Virginia pursued " the same course that is taken in England out of towns , every man , according to his ability , instructing his children . We have forty - eight parishes , and our ministry are well paid ...
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... INSTRUCTION . The charter provided for a college president and for six masters or professors . The text of the act transferring the college from the trust- ees to the faculty shows that the latter consisted , in 1729 , of President ...
... INSTRUCTION . The charter provided for a college president and for six masters or professors . The text of the act transferring the college from the trust- ees to the faculty shows that the latter consisted , in 1729 , of President ...
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... instruction are not known ; Rev. William Robinson , master of the grammar school , 1742 ; masters of the Indian school : John Fox , 1729 ; Rev. Robert Barrett , 1737. " The writer has no means of determining the exact nature of the ...
... instruction are not known ; Rev. William Robinson , master of the grammar school , 1742 ; masters of the Indian school : John Fox , 1729 ; Rev. Robert Barrett , 1737. " The writer has no means of determining the exact nature of the ...
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... instruction : ( 1 ) elementary schools , for the children of rich and poor alike ; ( 2 ) colleges for a middle degree of instruction to students in easy circumstances . The second bill proposed a univer- sity ; the third , a library ...
... instruction : ( 1 ) elementary schools , for the children of rich and poor alike ; ( 2 ) colleges for a middle degree of instruction to students in easy circumstances . The second bill proposed a univer- sity ; the third , a library ...
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Page 66 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 59 - ... convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices...
Page 33 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and...
Page 40 - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men ; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume ; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Page 56 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince, that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Page 51 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, 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 dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Page 67 - Harvard, the affirmative of the thesis, whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.
Page 13 - ... a primary object of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?