 Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace, and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote...  Bulletin - Page 311901Full view - About this book
 | 1928 - 536 pages
...generations. But we are Americans. We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the wor^s of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions,... | |
 | George Washington - 1906 - 120 pages
...pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of...resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions,promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1906 - 604 pages
...pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of...advance the arts of peace and the works of peace," etc. (a) Why is this a good selection for study in school? (b) How should this be read? (Voice, stress,... | |
 | George Washington - 1906 - 136 pages
...pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace arid the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, 15 call forth its powers, build... | |
 | Julie Celina Gauthier - 1907 - 88 pages
...general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race. — Webster. AROUND THE SENATE CHAMBER. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth...may not perform something worthy to be remembered. — Daniel Webster. ON ARCH OVER SPEAKER'S DESK, IN THE HOUSE. We hold these truths to be self-evident,... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 98 pages
...which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age 20 be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let...see whether we also, in our day and generation, may 25 not perform something worthy to be remembered. Let us cultivate a true spirit of union and harmony.... | |
 | 1908 - 254 pages
...Webster, the "expounder of the constitution," once said in Congress, "Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of...develop the resources of our land, call forth its power, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 pages
...better, may yet in their general character be as durable and permanent as other systems. — Ibid. 6. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth...promote all its great interests, and see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. — Ibid. 7. Juno promised... | |
 | George Washington - 1909 - 144 pages
...pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of...forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote aU4ts_ great interests, and see whether we also, in our day-afid generation, may not perform something... | |
 | Canadian Forestry Association - 1909 - 662 pages
...noticed on the walls of the Hall of Assembly, the following inscription which is probably known to you : 'Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth...its great interests, and see whether we also in our age and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.' These beautiful words of Daniel... | |
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