 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 586 pages
...will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers,...well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. ' " I rejoice, that every man in this community may... | |
 | James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 150 pages
...will, that we may preserve it, we endeavour to give a safe and proper direction to that publick will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers,...knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabrick may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining... | |
 | James Gordon Carter - Education - 1824 - 230 pages
...that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabrick may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. " I rejoice, that every man in this community may... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...will, that we may preserve it, we endeavour to give a safe and proper direction to that public 'will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers...government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion 0f general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...will, that we may preserve it, we endeavour to give a safe and proper direction to that public will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers,...well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. We know, sir, that at the present time an attempt... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to the public will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers,...well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness." pages 209, 210. " I rejoice, Sir, that every man... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will. We do not, indeed, exj)oct all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of government rests on that trust, that, by the dinuMon of general knowledge ana good and virtuous sentiments,... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...will, that we may preserve it, we endeavour to give a safe and proper direction to that public will. We do not indeed, expect all men to be philosophers...well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness. " We know, that at the present time, an attempt is... | |
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We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments,... 
