 | Andrew Carnegie - 1886 - Liczba stron: 552
...certain to produce satisfactory results. Jefferson was indeed a far-seeing statesman, and he says: "These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...governments; and have proved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation."... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1887 - Liczba stron: 420
...recommended the division of the counties of Virginia into wards of six miles square. "These wards," he says, "called townships in New England, are the vital principle...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The officers of the county are three Commissioners, a Judge... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1887 - Liczba stron: 396
...results. Jefferson was indeed a far-seeing statesman, and ho says : " These wards, called townships in Nuw England, are the vital principle of their governments ; and have proved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation."... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - Liczba stron: 732
...eulogism of Jefferson, who seventy years ago desired to see it transplanted to his own Virginia : " Those wards called townships in New England are the...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. ... As Cato then concluded every speech with the words '... | |
 | Alexander Black - 1888 - Liczba stron: 344
...Virginia into wards of six miles square, once declared: "These wards, called townships in New Engl;mrl, are the vital principle of their governments, and...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The Ohio system is a compromise between the town system... | |
 | Isaac Mellen Weston - 1889 - Liczba stron: 168
...diffidence was allowed to bring his wife to give expression to his ideas. Jefferson said : " These wards called townships in New England are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and its preservation. Where every man is a sharer in the direction of his ward republic,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - Liczba stron: 670
...times. He recommended the division of the counties of Virginia into wards of six miles square. "These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-governmeut, and for its preservation." Again he says: "These little republics would be the main... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1889 - Liczba stron: 676
...Self-government, general as well as local, is indispensable to our liberty." Thomas Jefferson said : " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words 'Carthago... | |
 | Fred Homer Williams - 1890 - Liczba stron: 90
...Jefferson, seventy years ago, longed to see the township system adopted in Virginia, and said : — " Those wards called townships in New England are the...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. As Cato concluded every speech with the words Carthago est... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - Liczba stron: 856
...Jefferson becomes almost fierce in the earnestness with which he urges Virginia to adopt the township. " Those wards, called townships in New England, are...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. ... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with Kercheval,... | |
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These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. 
