For my part, I desire to see the time when education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement... The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 129by Ida Minerva Tarbell, John McCan Davis - 1896 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
| Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1914 - 266 pages
...education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified...might have a tendency to accelerate that happy period. With regard to existing laws, some alterations are thought to be necessary. Many respectable men have... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1914 - 232 pages
...education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much mere general than at present, and should be gratified to...might have a tendency to accelerate that happy period. With regard to existing laws, some alterations are thought to be necessary. Many respectable men have... | |
| Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 238 pages
...decided to announce himself, in March, 1832, as a candidate for the General Assembly of the State. . . . The audacity of a young man in his position presenting...equalled by the humility of the closing paragraphs of his announcement: "But, fellow-citizens, I shall conclude. Considering the great degree of modesty which... | |
| Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge - Chicago (Ill.) - 1917 - 502 pages
...General Assembly, December 3, 1834, p. 23. See also Appendix I, doc. 1, p. 354 of this volume. 29 thing to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.1 Fortunately the "friends of education" were rewarded by one substantial measure... | |
| Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 388 pages
...education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified...might have a tendency to accelerate that happy period. thought to be necessary. Many respectable men have suggested that our estray laws — the law respecting... | |
| Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified...might have a tendency to accelerate that happy period. With regard to existing laws, some alterations are thought to be necessary. Many respectable men have... | |
| Paul Everett Belting - Education, Secondary - 1919 - 230 pages
...time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry, shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified...measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period." 2 Hall concluded by saying that a local, individual school system was practically... | |
| Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1919 - 580 pages
...time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry, shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified...measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. . A. LINCOLN Workingmen join in demanding schools. The representatives of the newly... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 pages
...when education — and by its means morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much more general than at present ; and should be gratified...might have a tendency to accelerate that happy period. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 314 pages
...education — • and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified...himself as a candidate for the legislature is fully equaled by the humility of the closing paragraphs of his announcement: "But, fellow-citizens, I shall... | |
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