 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.  The North American Review - Page 130edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 pages
...confidence in the attention of congress to these objects, he subjoined : " Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing...of public happiness. In one, in which the measures o? government receive their impression so immediately f tb® sense of the community, 1790. Report of... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1833 - 44 pages
...January 8, 1790, thus earnestly recommends Education : " There is nothing that can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature....every country the surest basis of public happiness, and in one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 pages
...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 opinion, that there is nothing...the measures of government receive their impression VOL. XII. 2 so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionality essential.... | |
 | 1839 - 604 pages
...to the Congress of the United States, in 1790, he manfully tells them " 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 prornotion of science and literature ; knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.... | |
 | Lewis Cass - 1836 - 68 pages
...said in his first address to Congress, after he had entered upon the execution of his duties, " that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of 3 17 the community as in ours, it is proportionally essential."... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 pages
...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 opinion, that there is nothing...the. measures of government receive their impression VOL. XII. 2 so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionably essential.... | |
 | American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - 1837 - 118 pages
...Congress, of Ihe Father of his Country, Jan. 8, 1790. " There is nothing that can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature....every country the surest basis of public happiness, and in one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense... | |
 | 1841 - 460 pages
...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 opinion, that there is nothing...in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 534 pages
...January 8, 1790, thus earnestly recommends education : " There is nothing that can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature....every country the surest basis of public happiness, and in one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense... | |
 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 pages
...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 opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve jour patronage than the promotion of science and literatare. Knowledge is in every country the surest... | |
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