 | Andrew White Young - United States - 1848 - 304 pages
...with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexion with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1848 - 146 pages
...both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1848 - 432 pages
...every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference on attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote,...diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially true, that virtue and morality are necessary springs of popular government. The rule indeed extends with...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure ofaGovernment gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...instruments of investigation in courts of justice 1 And let us with caution indulge the supposition, thaf morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a Government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 416 pages
...of providing for the education of the people, in language which cannot be too often repeated : — " It is substantially true that virtue or morality is...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."... | |
 | Indiana - 1851 - 720 pages
...government. Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake die foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object...of knowledge, in proportion as the structure of a govern men t gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
 | United States, William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 616 pages
...sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric 1 Promote, then, as an object of primary importance,...of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a Government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.... | |
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts... 
