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History of the Colonization of the United States - Page 222
by George Bancroft - 1841
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 97

1853 - 636 pages
...have been 2,2 1 7 . ' History of the United States,' vol. ic 10. 1853. Education in America. 469 ' that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, ' it was ordered that every township, after the Lord had in' creased them to the number of fifty householders, shall...
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The Prize Book: Of the Publick Latin School in Boston, Issue 1

Boston Latin School (Mass.) - 1820 - 378 pages
...the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of deceivers ; to the end therefore that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and Commonwealth ; it is enacted," &c. And we do not feel it any reproach to ourselves, or...
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The North American Review, Volume 19

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 586 pages
...the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and by a law then passed, ' to the end' as its preamble sets forth ' that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers' it is ordered that every township with fifty families shall provide a school, where children may be taught...
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Letters to the Hon. William Prescott, LL.D., on the Free Schools of New ...

James Gordon Carter - 1824 - 230 pages
...sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of deceivers ; to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavours :— " Sec. I. It is therefore ordered...
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Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous: And Monthly Literary ..., Volume 3

John Farmer - 1824 - 492 pages
...The obligation to support Schools, was enforced to the end, as is expressed in an ancient statute, *' that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers." A system of education, in substance, the same as now exists, was early adopted, and a higher literary...
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American Annals of Education, Volume 1

1826 - 788 pages
...true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of deceivers; to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors: — 'Sec. i. It is therefore ordered...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 3

1826 - 490 pages
...of i '\ -ii i in population and wealth, They built up schools, to use the language of the times, " to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth." And look for a moment at their situation ; in a wilderness, to be subdued...
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A Discourse Pronounced at the Request of the Essex Historical Society: On ...

Joseph Story - 1828 - 98 pages
...to instruct youth and fit them for the University, ' to the end,' say they, in this memorable law, ' to the end, that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth.' And this was done by them, when they had just made 9 66 their first lodgment...
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A Political and Civil History of the United States of America ..., Volume 1

Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 542 pages
...the true sense of the original, might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers ; and that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and Commonwealth."! In the system of New Haven colonial laws, published in 1656, it is ordered,...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1829 - 742 pages
...the true sense of the original, might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers ; and that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in the church and Commonwealth pp. 150, 151. To the early institutions of the Pilgrims for the promotion...
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