Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, Issue 2Francis Newton Thorpe |
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... interest to the country . While Thomas Jefferson , with that breadth of statesmanship which characterized all of his labors , kept unceasingly before his view the importance of popu lar education to reinforce and make effective the ...
... interest to the country . While Thomas Jefferson , with that breadth of statesmanship which characterized all of his labors , kept unceasingly before his view the importance of popu lar education to reinforce and make effective the ...
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... interest that was accorded to the former circular upon " Jefferson and the Uni- versity of Virginia . " The two principles which have hitherto divided the attention of statesmen and public benefactors , each one contending for the ...
... interest that was accorded to the former circular upon " Jefferson and the Uni- versity of Virginia . " The two principles which have hitherto divided the attention of statesmen and public benefactors , each one contending for the ...
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... interest to the people of the Southern States who have been , with a slight inter- ruption , its constant patrons . The tables show how in recent years the awakened interest in university life brings matriculates from all parts of the ...
... interest to the people of the Southern States who have been , with a slight inter- ruption , its constant patrons . The tables show how in recent years the awakened interest in university life brings matriculates from all parts of the ...
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... interest ; there are particular branches of science which are not so advantageously taught anywhere else in the United States as in Philadelphia , your Medical School for anatomy , and the able professors give advantages not to be found ...
... interest ; there are particular branches of science which are not so advantageously taught anywhere else in the United States as in Philadelphia , your Medical School for anatomy , and the able professors give advantages not to be found ...
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... interest held these men together - the love of books . If I were to name the symbol of Franklin's philosophy of education , I should say a book . Dr. Frank- lin and Dr. Samuel Johnson were as little alike as any two men of that age in ...
... interest held these men together - the love of books . If I were to name the symbol of Franklin's philosophy of education , I should say a book . Dr. Frank- lin and Dr. Samuel Johnson were as little alike as any two men of that age in ...
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Page 9 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Page 13 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 173 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 74 - An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants ; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open abettors.
Page 27 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line and in its proper column I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.
Page 162 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 120 - I would have the managers of the donation to the town of Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works, which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants, such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Page 122 - England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.
Page 173 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country...
Page 122 - ... to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity...