 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.  Historic Towns of New England - Stran 5avtor: Lyman P. Powell - 1898Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1887 - 348 strani
...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...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The officers of the county are three Commissioners, a Judge of Probate, Clerk of the Court of Common... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1887 - 549 strani
...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
...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...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. ... As Cato then concluded every speech with the words ' Carthago delenda est,' so do I every opinion... | |
 | Alexander Black - 1888 - 326 strani
...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...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The Ohio system is a compromise between the town system of New England and the county system of the... | |
 | 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
...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...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words 'Carthago delemJa est,' so do I every opinion,... | |
 | Isaac Mellen Weston - 1889 - 145 strani
...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...man for the perfect exercise of self-government and its preservation. Where every man is a sharer in the direction of his ward republic, or of some of... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891
...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... | |
 | Fred Homer Williams - 1890 - 78 strani
...Jefferson, seventy years ago, longed to see the township system adopted in Virginia, and said : — " Those wards called townships in New England are the...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. As Cato concluded every speech with the words Carthago est delenda, so do I every opinion with the... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 420 strani
...Jefferson becomes almost fierce in the earnestness with which he urges Virginia to adopt the township. " Those wards, called townships in New England, are...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. ... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with Kercheval, July 12,1816, and to Cabell, February 2,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 420 strani
...urges Virginia to adopt the township. " Those wards, called townships in New England, are the vita,! principle of their governments, and have proved themselves...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. ... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with Kercheval, July 12, 181fi, and to Cabell, February 2,1816.... | |
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