Documents, Messages and Other Communications, Made to the General Assembly, Volumen18

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Página 240 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Página 125 - The general assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state...
Página 154 - The principal of all funds, arising from the sale, or other disposition of lands, or other property, granted or entrusted to this state for educational and religious purposes, shall forever be preserved inviolate, and undiminished ; and, the income arising therefrom, shall be faithfully applied to the specific objects of the original grants, or appropriations.
Página 145 - Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. 8vo. 18s. - Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Página 154 - That the section number sixteen, in every township, and where such section has been sold, granted or disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto and most contiguous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools.
Página 43 - Institutions for the .benefit of the insane, blind, and deaf and dumb, shall always be fostered and supported by the state ; and be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the General Assembly.
Página 240 - ... of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrious pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science. We have some exceptions, indeed. I presented one to you lately, and we have some others. But the terms I use are general truths. I hope the necessity will, at length, be seen of establishing institutions here, as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in its highest degree.
Página 241 - The mass of education in Virginia, before the Revolution, placed her with the foremost of her sister colonies. 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.
Página 155 - Reserve; that of all the lands which may hereafter be purchased of the Indian tribes, by the United States, and lying within the State of Ohio, the...
Página 137 - ... every family in each district or sub-district shall be entitled to the use of one volume at a time from the school library, although no member of such family attends any of the schools of the township...

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