Passing through the Jerseys and entering Pennsylvania, every criterion of superior improvement witnesses the change.

If mamma sends me to school, it will not be for my happiness, but because everybody thinks me so wicked, there is no managing me at home; and then in the holidays I shall hear nothing but the wonderful improvement school discipline has made, it will be no credit to my own efforts, and so there will be no pleasure in making any.

They have a mutual improvement class, which is one of the best of its kind in the town, and they discuss the laws of life,mental, physical, political, and spirituallike embryonic philosophers bent upon rectifying all creation.

To the resistless progress of this great principle I look with a confidence which nothing can shake; it makes all improvement certainit makes all change safe which it produces; for none can be brought about, unless all has been accomplished in a cautious and salutary spirit.

Just in proportion as slavery plays an important part in the social organization does improvement cease.

In an emergency of this nature most land improvement companies would have issued pretty little pamphlets, gotten up in exquisite taste, full of beautiful pictures and bubbling over with enthusiastic text, all based upon possibilities rather than upon realities.

One great bar to improvement consists, I am told, of the voluminous nature of the reports upon all subjects, which are heaped together until they become so hopelessly bulky, that nobody can be prevailed upon to wade through them.

I can not think this, and the impossibility of supposing it would be still more glaring if similar calculations were carried out in regard to the numerous objects of material, moral, and political usefulness of which the idea of internal improvement admits.

The libraries and other collections of a university are storehouses of the knowledge already acquired by mankind, from which further invention and improvement proceed.

Among the improvement projects, we hear that a building for the meetings of public societies is to occupy the above site.

Confidence is gradually reviving, and so soon as it is discovered that this capital can be profitably employed in commercial and manufacturing enterprises and in the construction of railroads and other works of public and private improvement prosperity will again smile throughout the land.

This land is reported to be generally barren, sunken, and unfit for cultivation, except in some instances on the margin of the rivers, on which by improvement rice might be cultivated, its chief value depending on the timber fit for the building of ships, with which it is represented as abounding.

It is in the last twenty-five years that village-improvement societies, first instigated by a womanMiss Sallie Goodrich of Stockbridge, Mass.have created a transformation in whole townships, and so enhanced the value of property as to drive out the original inhabitants and change farming communities into fashionable summer resorts.

"I am in favor of a national bank; am in favor of the internal improvement system, and a high protective tariff.

Thus health laws, tax laws, and improvement laws regulate many of the acts of citizens, limit the use of property, and compel men to better social courses against their own wishes and judgments.

The surplus energies of the masses would be devoted to the construction of temples, palaces, and pyramids; to ministering to the pride and pampering the luxury of their rulers; and should any disposition to improvement arise among the classes of leisure it would at once be checked by the dread of innovation.

There is a great opportunity before women's clubs and civic-improvement associations to arouse an interest in the provision of suitable shelter for the young families in their several neighborhoods.

I have felt it to be an imperative obligation to withhold my constitutional sanction from two bills which had passed the two Houses of Congress, involving the principle of the internal-improvement branch of the "American system" and conflicting in their provisions with the views here expressed.