Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Band 1Little, Brown, 1870 |
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... happy to say , at the present day . Returning with deep impressions produced by this state of things , I was charged for four years with the editor- ship of the North American Review . This placed me , almost of necessity , in the ...
... happy to say , at the present day . Returning with deep impressions produced by this state of things , I was charged for four years with the editor- ship of the North American Review . This placed me , almost of necessity , in the ...
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... happy chance can fall , into the sphere of metropolitan favor , it follows , that the mass of the people are cut off from the operation of those motives to exertion , which flow from the hope or the sion of patronage . ence . posses ...
... happy chance can fall , into the sphere of metropolitan favor , it follows , that the mass of the people are cut off from the operation of those motives to exertion , which flow from the hope or the sion of patronage . ence . posses ...
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... happy effects , which their partial introduction has every where else produced ? It cannot but be , that the permanent operation of a free system of constitutional and representative government should be favorable to the culture of mind ...
... happy effects , which their partial introduction has every where else produced ? It cannot but be , that the permanent operation of a free system of constitutional and representative government should be favorable to the culture of mind ...
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... happy genius in the East invented the alphabet , but not a line has reached us of profane literature , in any of their languages ; and it is owing to the embalming power of Gre- cian genius , that the invention itself has been ...
... happy genius in the East invented the alphabet , but not a line has reached us of profane literature , in any of their languages ; and it is owing to the embalming power of Gre- cian genius , that the invention itself has been ...
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... happy transfusion of the Grecian masters . Horace translates Alcæus , Terence translates Menander , Lucretius translates Epicurus , Virgil translates Homer , and Cicero , I had almost said , trans- lates Demosthenes and Plato . But the ...
... happy transfusion of the Grecian masters . Horace translates Alcæus , Terence translates Menander , Lucretius translates Epicurus , Virgil translates Homer , and Cicero , I had almost said , trans- lates Demosthenes and Plato . But the ...
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Adams America ancient army arts behold beneath blood Boston British British army called Captain cause century character Charlestown church citizens civilized coast colony command commencement Committee of Safety Congress Connecticut River constitution continent despotism discovery duty effect England establishment Europe existence Faneuil Hall fathers favor feelings fellow-citizens fortune France French French revolution friends furnished Greece hand happy heart honor human hundred improvement independence Indians influence institutions intellectual interest John Adams John Harvard knowledge labor Lafayette land Lexington liberty living Massachusetts ment mighty military mind moral nations native nature never occasion Olmütz party passed patriotic peace political popular population portion present principles progress prosperity pursuit region revolution Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams savage settlement society soil Spain spirit spot thing thousand tion town tribes troops truth United venerable Washington wounded
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Seite 632 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Seite 30 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Seite 41 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 175 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Seite 595 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Seite 362 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Seite 69 - Student of history, compare for me the baffled projects, the deserted settlements, the abandoned adventures, of other times, and find the parallel of this. Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; was it disease ; was it the tomahawk ; was it the deep malady of a blighted hope- a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left beyond the sea ; was it some, or...
Seite 221 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Seite 435 - That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.
Seite 605 - ... writings were altogether in a differing style and form ; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art to express their own sense and to avoid circuit of speech, without regard to the pureness, pleasantness, and (as I may call it) lawfulness of the phrase or word.