The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year ..., Volumes 5-6Gray and Bowen, 1834 - Almanacs, American |
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... Academies ; Uni- versity of Alabama ; Lagrange Col- lege ; College of Spring Hill Europe , Reigning Sovereigns of Europe , Statistical View of 271 267 224-227 Executive Government , United States 128 Freneau , Philip 313 America ...
... Academies ; Uni- versity of Alabama ; Lagrange Col- lege ; College of Spring Hill Europe , Reigning Sovereigns of Europe , Statistical View of 271 267 224-227 Executive Government , United States 128 Freneau , Philip 313 America ...
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... Academies ; Dartmouth College ; Learned Societies 153-158 New Jersey - Government ; Judiciary ; Common Schools ; Academies ; Col lege of New Jersey ; Rutgers College 188191 New York - Government ; Judiciary ; Common Schools ...
... Academies ; Dartmouth College ; Learned Societies 153-158 New Jersey - Government ; Judiciary ; Common Schools ; Academies ; Col lege of New Jersey ; Rutgers College 188191 New York - Government ; Judiciary ; Common Schools ...
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... Academies . WEATHER , No. of days . Rain and Snow . Inches Total fall of Rain . DRIEST Month in the year WETTEST Month in the year . Albany Auburn 138 Cambridge , Wash . Co. 200 165 Canandaigua 225 1-2 139 1-2 93 227 214 1-2 150 1-221 1 ...
... Academies . WEATHER , No. of days . Rain and Snow . Inches Total fall of Rain . DRIEST Month in the year WETTEST Month in the year . Albany Auburn 138 Cambridge , Wash . Co. 200 165 Canandaigua 225 1-2 139 1-2 93 227 214 1-2 150 1-221 1 ...
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... Academies , & c.— Academies , grammar schools , high schools , and gymnasiums are terms applied to seminaries which hold an intermedi- ate rank between common schools and colleges . Some of these are classical schools , designed chiefly ...
... Academies , & c.— Academies , grammar schools , high schools , and gymnasiums are terms applied to seminaries which hold an intermedi- ate rank between common schools and colleges . Some of these are classical schools , designed chiefly ...
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... Academies of Maine , and also of the general state of education . The summary of Common Schools was derived from an official Report made to the legislature in 1825. Since that time there has been no new Report on the subject ; but an ...
... Academies of Maine , and also of the general state of education . The summary of Common Schools was derived from an official Report made to the legislature in 1825. Since that time there has been no new Report on the subject ; but an ...
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Page 223 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 334 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 148 - ... provided, that no donation, grant or endowment shall at any time be made by the legislature to any literary institution now established, or which may hereafter be established, unless, at the time of making such endowment, the legislature of the state shall have the right to grant any further powers to, alter, limit or restrain any of the powers vested in, any such literary institution, as shall be judged necessary to promote the best interests thereof.
Page 226 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 90 - States, for the purpose of obtaining a territory on the coast of Africa, or at some other place, not within any of the states or territorial governments of the United States, to serve as an asylum for such persons of/ colour as are now free, and may desire the same, and for those who may hereafter be emancipated within this Commonwealth; and that the Senators and Representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States, be requested!
Page 136 - States, and more especially an act entitled "an act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and also, an act entitled "an act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports...
Page 124 - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5 FRUGALITY Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing.
Page 124 - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Page 296 - But they can all be carried into execution without a bank. A bank therefore is not necessary, and consequently not authorized by this phrase. It has been urged that a bank will give great facility or convenience in the collection of taxes. Suppose this were true : yet the Constitution allows only the means which are " necessary," not those which are merely " convenient" for effecting the enumerated powers.
Page 91 - The object to which its attention is to be exclusively directed is to promote and execute a plan for the colonizing, with their consent, the free people of color residing in our country, in Africa or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient...