Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, Ausgabe 2Francis Newton Thorpe U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 450 Seiten |
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Francis Newton Thorpe. Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania Francis Newton Thorpe 1 P LD 452.9 FITER 1 1 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . CELLENCY B.FRANKLIN LLD . ERS . PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVAN STER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE ...
Francis Newton Thorpe. Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania Francis Newton Thorpe 1 P LD 452.9 FITER 1 1 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . CELLENCY B.FRANKLIN LLD . ERS . PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVAN STER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE ...
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... University of Pennsylvania . " Some years since this Bureau offered a similar circu- lar on " Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia , " which was printed in an edition of 20,000 copies , all of which have been distributed ...
... University of Pennsylvania . " Some years since this Bureau offered a similar circu- lar on " Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia , " which was printed in an edition of 20,000 copies , all of which have been distributed ...
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... University of Pennsylvania , and his results are now offered for publication . I am confident in the belief that this treatise will be received with the same interest that was accorded to the former circular upon " Jefferson and the Uni ...
... University of Pennsylvania , and his results are now offered for publication . I am confident in the belief that this treatise will be received with the same interest that was accorded to the former circular upon " Jefferson and the Uni ...
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... University of Pennsylvania - and the principal educational institutions founded in Pennsylvania in conformity with his ideas - Franklin and Marshall College , the Franklin Institute , Girard College , and the Philadelphia Manual Training ...
... University of Pennsylvania - and the principal educational institutions founded in Pennsylvania in conformity with his ideas - Franklin and Marshall College , the Franklin Institute , Girard College , and the Philadelphia Manual Training ...
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... Pennsylvania , " " is to serve mankind , one's country , friends and family . " On this broad conception Franklin and his associates founded the University of Pennsylvania . At the close of nearly a century and a half after that ...
... Pennsylvania , " " is to serve mankind , one's country , friends and family . " On this broad conception Franklin and his associates founded the University of Pennsylvania . At the close of nearly a century and a half after that ...
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Seite 9 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Seite 13 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 173 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Seite 74 - An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open abettors.
Seite 27 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line and in its proper column I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Seite 162 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 120 - I would have the managers of the donation to the town of Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works, which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants, such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Seite 122 - England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
Seite 173 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country...
Seite 122 - ... to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity...