 Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.  Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr - Page 135by United States. Congress. House - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Richard Gause Boone - Education - 1889 - 444 pages
...1790, Washington's often-quoted words were full of wisdom and rare foresight. " Knowledge," he says, " is in every country the surest basis of public happiness....in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately as in ours, from the sense of the community, it is proportionally essential.... | |
 | Richard Gause Boone - Education - 1889 - 440 pages
...1790, Washington's often-quoted words were full of wisdom and rare foresight. " Knowledge," he says, " is in every country the surest basis of public happiness....in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately as in ours, from the sense of the community, it is proportionally essential.... | |
 | Education - 1889 - 758 pages
...George Washington on all subjects of great moment. In his first message to Congress Washington says : " Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing more deserving j-our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge in every country... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - 1892 - 132 pages
...address to Congress on January 8, 1790 : Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve...Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - 1892 - 132 pages
...address to Congress on January 8, 1790: Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve...Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - 1892 - 136 pages
...I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can bettor deserve your patronage than the promotion of science...Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of happiness. In oue in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1893 - 730 pages
...some of our most prominent educators. President Washington, in his first message to congress said: "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing more deserving your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge in every country... | |
 | George Washington - Quotations, American - 1894 - 510 pages
...of abilities to make it still more extensive. 1789. IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS. There is nothing which can better deserve your* patronage, than the promotion of Science and Literature. 1790. Nothing can give me more pleasure, than to patronize the essays of genius, and a laudable cultivation... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1896 - 646 pages
...intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the post-office and post-roads. Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1896 - 658 pages
...intercourse between the distant parts of our I country by a due attention to the post-office and post-roads. Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me...promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in even- country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive... | |
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