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
| Nicholas Murray Butler - 1900 - 538 pages
...trust, need recommendation," and adds, " Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve...patronage than the promotion of science and literature. * * * Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries already established,... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach, Forrest Morgan, E. T. Roe, George Edwin Rines, Nathan Haskell Dole, Edward Thomas Roe, Thomas Campbell Copeland - 1903 - 930 pages
...trust, need recommendation," and adds, "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve...patronage than the promotion of science and literature. . . . Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries already established,... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1884 - 774 pages
...without regard to party or sectioual proclivities : Knowledge is in every country the minis), baeie of public, happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community ae in ours it is proportionally essential.... | |
| Arthur Herbert Wilde - 1905 - 500 pages
...in this direction is well indicated in a statement from his first message to Congress, to the effect "that there is nothing which can better deserve your...country the surest basis of public happiness." In his last message, he calls attention to the subject, and tells Congress that the desirableness of establishing... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1945 - 1024 pages
...Washington, in his first message to Congress, stated the following : "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 proportionately essential.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1945 - 1058 pages
...Washington, in his flrst message to Congress, stated the following : "Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can lietter deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1969 - 1642 pages
...state . . . and to the happiness of human life." In a message to the first Congress, Washington stated that, "there is nothing which can better deserve your...patronage than the promotion of science and literature". With the advent of increasing leisure time and urbanization in our Nation, it becomes increasingly... | |
| 1984 - 328 pages
...Congress to enact a patent statute as expressly authorized by the US Constitution and wisely advised that "there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science . . ." In 1790, the first patent statute initiated the transformation of the United States from an... | |
| 1926 - 916 pages
...persuaded that you will agree with me in the opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature....Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness." Again in his farewell address he uttered the same thought advocating the primary importance... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1957 - 654 pages
...obligation of the Federal Government was made evident in his first annual address to Congress. He declared that — There is nothing which can better deserve...patronage than the promotion of science and literature. ' Ciibberley, Ellwood P.: Public Education In the United States. Boston, Houghton-Mlfflin, 1934, 782... | |
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