... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.30 29 John Adams, Works (CF Adams, edit., Boston, 1851-1856), IV, 302, in footnote, so American Academy... Annual Report - Page 1508by United States. Office of Education - 1896Full view - About this book
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...oldest scientific body in the United States. It was chartered by the state of Massachusetts in 1 780 "to cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people" ; and it has numbered among its members most of the leading scholars and men of affairs of Massachusetts,... | |
| Historical Records Survey (Mass.) - 1939 - 178 pages
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| Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 pages
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| Essex Institute - 1879 - 356 pages
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| Conrad Wright - 1994 - 260 pages
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| Stephen E. Ambrose - 1999 - 430 pages
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