Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, Ausgabe 2Francis Newton Thorpe U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 450 Seiten |
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... authorities is regarded as mischievous by the vast majority of thinking people in our country . But whatever goes to the education and enlightenment of the citizens in their several localities goes for the increase of local directive ...
... authorities is regarded as mischievous by the vast majority of thinking people in our country . But whatever goes to the education and enlightenment of the citizens in their several localities goes for the increase of local directive ...
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... authority of its author . Special acknowledgments are due to the faithful Secre- tary of the Board of Trustees , Rev. Jesse Y. Burk , to whose intimate knowledge of University affairs a large portion of the value of the book is due ...
... authority of its author . Special acknowledgments are due to the faithful Secre- tary of the Board of Trustees , Rev. Jesse Y. Burk , to whose intimate knowledge of University affairs a large portion of the value of the book is due ...
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... Authority alone , unless the same be voted by a Majority of their whole Number , if at a general Convention , and if at a special Meeting , by the like Majority , upon personal Notice given to each Trustee , at least one day before , to ...
... Authority alone , unless the same be voted by a Majority of their whole Number , if at a general Convention , and if at a special Meeting , by the like Majority , upon personal Notice given to each Trustee , at least one day before , to ...
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... Authority to exercise any of the Powers reposed in them , until they have chosen a new Trustee in his Place , and such new Trustee shall have signed the established Constitutions , which if he shall refuse to do , they shall proceed to ...
... Authority to exercise any of the Powers reposed in them , until they have chosen a new Trustee in his Place , and such new Trustee shall have signed the established Constitutions , which if he shall refuse to do , they shall proceed to ...
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... authority to make , have , and use a common seal with such stamp and inscription as they shall think proper ; and the same to change , break , alter , and renew at their pleasure . IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY . 69.
... authority to make , have , and use a common seal with such stamp and inscription as they shall think proper ; and the same to change , break , alter , and renew at their pleasure . IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY . 69.
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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...