History of Brown University: With Illustrative DocumentsProvidence Press Company, printers, 1867 - 443 strani |
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Stran 303 - 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...
Stran 232 - Trustees and Fellows of the College or University, in the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations in New England, in America...
Stran 251 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Stran 76 - A Summary of the Principal Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation.
Stran 303 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Stran 132 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Stran 245 - That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to examine into, ascertain, and determine the value of the private property belonging to officers and enlisted men in the military service...
Stran 175 - ... effecting it. But soon afterwards some who were unwilling it should be there, and some who were unwilling it should be anywhere, did so far agree as to lay aside the said location, and propose that the county which should raise the most money should have the College.
Stran 80 - Laws was conferred upon him by this college. Mr. Richards had received no intimation that the honor was intended for him, nor did he live to hear that it had been bestowed. The library which he bequeathed to the college is, in many respects,, valuable. It contains a considerable number of Welsh books, a large collection of valuable works, illustrating the history and antiquities of England and Wales; besides two or three hundred bound volumes of pamphlets, some of them very ancient, rare, and curious....
Stran 132 - Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and fourth of the reign of his most sacred Majesty George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, and so forth.