Early History of the University of VirginiaJ. W. Randolph, 1856 - 528 Seiten |
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Seite 56 - ... character of those who really met would have been the measure of the weight they would have had in the scale of public opinion. As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words, " Carthago delenda est," so do I every opinion, with the injunction, " divide the counties into wards.
Seite 106 - A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so it shall be the latest of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
Seite 442 - Constitution, we have thought it proper at this point to leave every sect to provide, as they think fittest, the means of further instruction in their own peculiar tenets.
Seite 441 - ... the proofs of the being of a Grod, the creator, preserver, and supreme ruler of the universe, the author of all the relations of morality, and of the laws and obligations these infer...
Seite 185 - What is her education now? Where is it? The little we have we import like beggars from other States; or import their beggars to bestow on us their miserable crumbs.
Seite 55 - ... will be found to be in the making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is competent to them, and delegating only what is beyond his competence...
Seite 437 - ... superlative wisdom of their fathers, and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots, rather than- indulge in the degeneracies of civilization? And how much more encouraging to the achievements of science and improvement, is this, than the desponding view that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated...
Seite 55 - The elementary republics of the wards, the county republics, the State republics, and the republic of the Union, would form a gradation of authorities, standing each on the basis of law, holding every one its delegated share of powers, and constituting truly a system of fundamental balances and checks for the government.
Seite 54 - Council the management of all our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores. No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. Let the national government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, laws, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties...
Seite 434 - To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates ; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment.