A Discourse Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-Jersey, at Its First Annual Meeting, September 27, 1825Princeton Press, printed for the Society by D.A. Borrenstein, 1825 |
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Academick Agriculture American ample ANNUAL MEETING appointed Arts and Sciences assembled Associations attention celebrated century Chemistry cherish co-operation comfort Commencement Connecticut CORRESPONDING SECRETARY countries course culture delivered DISCOURSE distinguished doubt enlightened enterprize ERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL especially ESQUIRE excite EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY formed furnish the means GENTLEMEN honour Idler illustrious important influence inquiry interests Jersey kind of improvement labour learned liberal knowledge Literary and Philosophical LITERARY AND SCIENTIFICK literature and science LUTHER HALSEY mature ments moral mutual Nassau-Hall object once Philosophical Society pledge Polity portunities Princeton principles progress promoting Useful Knowledge provement publick eye put in requisition rational enjoyment RECORDING SECRETARY Republick respectable rich Royal Society SAMUEL MILLER SEPTEMBER 27 SOCIETY OF NEW-JERSEY specimen spirit subjects talents taste thirst for knowledge TICAL Transactions treasures ture union and effort United unwearied VENERATION vidual wealth welfare worthy zeal
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Page 9 - The same remarks are equally applicable to the epistolary stile of Dr. Rush, and that of his conversation ; in both of which he eminently excelled. Mr- Fox declared in the British House of Commons that he had learned more from Mr. Burke's conversation than from all the books he had, ever read. It may also be observed of the conversation of Dr. Rush, that such were the...
Page 6 - Society shall be the collection and preservation of all materials calculated to shed light on the natural, civil, and political history of Indiana ; the publication and circulation of historical documents ; the promotion of useful knowledge ; and the friendly and profitable intercourse of such citizens as are disposed to promote these ends.
Page 38 - I need only recal to your recollection one celebrated saying of his, which has by no means become obsolete, — that philosophy when studied superficially leads to unbelief and atheism, but when profoundly understood is sure to produce veneration for God, and to render faith in him the ruling principle of our life.
Page 33 - the great advantages resulting to nations from their progress in the arts and sciences," Dr Miller observes, Of these advantages. Great Britain has furnished the most signal example. And the distinctness with which, amidst other causes, they may be traced to her progress in Philosophy and the liberal Arts, is too plain to be controverted. Within a little more than the period to which I...
Page 23 - COLLEGES shall be made accessible to the children of the POOR as well as to those of the rich.
Page 31 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 16 - ... names which ought still to live in the memories of all who respect talent and worth, have either sunk into...
Page 36 - ... neither oranges nor grapes would grow upon the hawthorn. At last, those who were disappointed began to be angry ; those, likewise, who hated innovation, were glad to gain an opportunity of ridiculing men who had depreciated, perhaps with too much arrogance, the knowledge of antiquity. And it...
Page 10 - Charlemagne, we read of a Society of learned men, who associated under the auspices of that \ celebrated Monarch, for the purpose of improving each other, and of promoting useful knowledge.