Proceedings: Of the 1st-12th Annual Educational Conference, Volumen8

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Página 74 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 88 - Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North, Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring, Surround them East and West, for they would surround you, And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
Página 88 - Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language-shapers on other shores, Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate, I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither, ^<r-> ^lf^/ „ jl.cI have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,) Think nothing can ever be greater, nothing pan ever deserve more than it deserves, Regarding it all intently a long while, then dismissing it, I stand in my...
Página 74 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Página 367 - ... general law, does not reach the meaning of science ; science is knowledge reduced to law and embodied in system. The knowledge of various countries gathered by an observant traveler may be a heterogeneous medley of facts, which gain real value only when coordinated and arranged by the man of science.
Página 248 - My manors, halls, and bowers shall still Be open, at my sovereign's will, To each one whom he lists, howe'er Unmeet to be the owner's peer. My castles are my king's alone, From turret to foundation-stone; The hand of Douglas is his own, And never shall in friendly grasp The hand of such as Marmion clasp.
Página 60 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.
Página 389 - To-night, — The music carries me back to it again ! — I see beyond this island universe, Beyond our sun, and all those other suns That throng the Milky Way, far, far beyond, A thousand little wisps, faint nebulae, Luminous fans and milky streaks of fire ; Some like soft brushes of electric mist Streaming from one bright point ; others that spread And branch, like growing systems ; others...
Página 393 - THE invaluable agent of our best knowledge of the environing world, and yet itself unknown except by inference; the intermediary between matter and the finest of our senses, and yet itself not material; intangible, and yet able to press, to strike blows, and to recoil; impalpable, and yet the vehicle of the energies that flow to the earth from the sun — light in all times has been a recognized and conspicuous feature of the physical world, a perpetual reminder that the material, the tangible, the...
Página 43 - Am I myself a broadly enough educated man to distinguish, when I am engaged in the work of reconstruction, between the truth of the past and the error of the past, and not to pull them both down together? Am I sufficiently familiar with what the past has learned, and what it therefore actually has to teach, and am I enough of a statesman not to remove any brick from the structure of man's progress until I see how to replace it by a better one?

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