 ... knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from,...  Self Culture - Page 5651895Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1970 - 1696 pages
...Country) . The gift to President Washington was turned over to the Congress through his will . It reads " I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia - 1972 - 264 pages
...will of George Washington, first President of the United States of America contained the following: "I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) [The stock was value at £5,000 sterling... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1996 - 230 pages
...life, they may be enabled to free themselves from those local prejudices and state jealousies, which are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public...pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country." 4th. Having no children, he bequeaths the whole of his estate, a few legacies excepted, to the children,... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1996 - 230 pages
...enabled to free themselves from those local prejudices and state jealousies, which are never- failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country." 4th. Having no children, he bequeaths the whole of his estate, a few legacies excepted, to the children,... | |
 | Carl Woodring - 1999 - 250 pages
...infinite Importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in their Juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from . . . local prejudices and habitual jealousies."u Not all habitually bickering members of Congress... | |
 | Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell - 2000 - 324 pages
...from "local prejudices and habitual jealousies . . . which, when carried to excess are never failing sources of disquietude to the Public mind and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country."9 The stock Washington earmarked for a national university had been given to him by the Commonwealth... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 pages
...matter of infinite importance in my lodgment, by associating with each other and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a...disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous conseqnences to this country. Under these impressions, so fully dilated, ltem. — l give and bequeath,... | |
 | Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1895 - 120 pages
...matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a...Potomac Company toward the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, nnder the auspices of the general... | |
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