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... districts will not usually make any dis- tinction , because they are intent only on the filling of quotas . Such a State bounty might possibly do good . The system of bounties , as practiced in the country generally , has filled it with ...
... districts will not usually make any dis- tinction , because they are intent only on the filling of quotas . Such a State bounty might possibly do good . The system of bounties , as practiced in the country generally , has filled it with ...
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... districts , for the purpose of filling their quotas under the call of the President previous to the one issued recently . As a general rule , these agents were unsuccessful . They went out , of course , entirely at the expense of the ...
... districts , for the purpose of filling their quotas under the call of the President previous to the one issued recently . As a general rule , these agents were unsuccessful . They went out , of course , entirely at the expense of the ...
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... Convicted of forgery in the District Court for Ontonagon county , July 3d , 1858 , and sentenced for eight years . Cook was a lawyer , given to habits of intemperance , 1 and through these fell into crime . He is 30 APPENDIX .
... Convicted of forgery in the District Court for Ontonagon county , July 3d , 1858 , and sentenced for eight years . Cook was a lawyer , given to habits of intemperance , 1 and through these fell into crime . He is 30 APPENDIX .
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... District Court for Houghton county , in the year 1860 , and sentenced for eight years . The prisoner was drunk and cross , having in his hands a loaded gun , which his little son tried to get away from him , and in doing so it was ...
... District Court for Houghton county , in the year 1860 , and sentenced for eight years . The prisoner was drunk and cross , having in his hands a loaded gun , which his little son tried to get away from him , and in doing so it was ...
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... district ; and there is , perhaps , no State in the Union which to - day holds out so many advantages for the es- tablishment of many kinds of manufactures . We here possess not only the raw material for many of the leading and staple ...
... district ; and there is , perhaps , no State in the Union which to - day holds out so many advantages for the es- tablishment of many kinds of manufactures . We here possess not only the raw material for many of the leading and staple ...
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Page 20 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 20 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 95 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 20 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 90 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 3 - Legislature for all public moneys received and paid out by him from any funds subject to his order, with vouchers; and shall accompany his message with a statement of the same.
Page 91 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 2 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 92 - The diffusion of these silent teachers, books, through the whole community, is to work greater effects than artillery, machinery, and legislation. Its peaceful agency is to supersede stormy revolutions. The culture, which it is to spread, whilst an unspeakable good to the individual, is also to become the stability of nations.
Page 163 - The formation of the *' society for the promotion of collegiate and theological education in the west...