Proceedings, Volumes 39-40

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Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1893
 

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Página 84 - Self poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering, and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Página 165 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 165 - The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper: they have been wronged: they have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side.
Página 301 - Secretaries and sub-Committees, and for transacting other necessary business ; three of the Committee shall be a quorum. Members may attend the Monthly Committee Meetings after the official business has been transacted. VII. — The Chairman at Meetings of the Society shall have a casting vote, in addition to his vote as a Member.
Página 164 - ... and conquered for you in every part of the world. Detested be the national reflections against them ! They are unjust, groundless, illiberal, unmanly. When I ceased to serve his majesty as a minister, it was not the country of the man by which I was moved. — but the man of that country wanted -wisdom, and held principles incompatible with freedom*} It is a long time, Mr.
Página 165 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, A.nd clap your padlock on the mind.
Página 162 - Hold fast therefore by this sheetanchor of happiness, Religion ; you will often want it in the times of most danger ; the storms and tempests of life. Cherish true religion as preciously as you will fly with abhorrence and contempt superstition and enthusiasm.
Página 164 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast, that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North.
Página 164 - ... to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side. They served with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.
Página 155 - To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.

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