Washington the Model of Character for American Youth: An Address Delivered to the Boys of the Public Schools

By J. N. M'Jilton

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 16, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066166427

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J. N. M'Jilton

Washington the Model of Character for American Youth

An Address Delivered to the Boys of the Public Schools

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066166427

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PREFACE.

WASHINGTON THE MODEL OF AMERICAN CHARACTER.

THE DOMESTIC ALTAR.

GRECIAN AND ROMAN PATRIOTISM.

PROPER ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER.

ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER IN WASHINGTON.

THE AMERICAN CHARACTER IN ITS TRUE GREATNESS.

THE AMERICAN CHARACTER IN WASHINGTON ITS MODEL.

MAN IN HIS SOCIAL CHARACTER.

MAN’S SOCIAL EXCELLENCE SEEN IN HIS ESTIMATE OF THE FEMALE CHARACTER.

THE AMERICAN DOMESTIC ALTAR.

INFLUENCE OF THE DOMESTIC ALTAR IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PATRIOTIC CHARACTER.

INFLUENCE OF THE DOMESTIC ALTAR IN THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.

WASHINGTON THE BOY.

WASHINGTON THE MAN.

WASHINGTON THE PATRIOTIC SOLDIER.

WASHINGTON THE PATRIOTIC STATESMAN.

WASHINGTON THE CHRISTIAN.

THE SCHOOL A DEPARTMENT OF THE DOMESTIC ALTAR.

THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE.

THE INTELLIGENCE NECESSARY TO THE AMERICAN CITIZEN IS TO BE OBTAINED IN THE SCHOOL.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

EDUCATION PREPARES THE YOUTH FOR EMINENCE IN LIFE.

EDUCATION PREPARES THE YOUTH FOR EMINENCE IN ANY PROFESSION.

CHOICE OF PROFESSION.

APPLICATION OF THE MOTTO.

CONCLUSION.

PREFACE.

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The address which forms this little book was not intended for publication. It was prepared to be delivered at the celebration of the Public Schools on the 22d inst. After it was delivered, Commissioners of Public Schools and others regarded it as being worthy of a general circulation in some convenient form, so that whatever benefit might be derived from its use should not be limited to the pupils of the Public Schools, but shared by the youth of our city and country, so far as the same may be practicable. With this view the address was solicited for publication by the Committee of Arrangements.

As usefulness was the aim of the author in preparing the address, he hopes that every boy who may obtain a copy will read it with a view to his improvement. Doubtless the model which is presented in our illustrious

Washington

will be found to contain what is excellent and valuable in character, and worthy the emulation of the American boy. And if his ambition be excited to the pursuit of that which is high, and honorable, and virtuous, the expansion of his manly faculties may develope such character as shall render him a distinguished man,—distinguished in his deeds, as he is in the proud name he bears of American citizen.

July 28, 1846.

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My Young Friends

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Pupils of the Public Schools of Baltimore:

The motto inscribed upon the beautiful banner of your Central High School is the subject of my remarks to you to-day.

Palmam qui meruit ferat

—Let him wear the palm who wins it. And when I say that this is a motto worthy of the American youth, I give it a place far above that which it occupied in the proudest days of Roman honor, or in the brightest days of Grecian fame. And if