Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... LIBERTY , An Oration delivered at Charlestown , on the 4th of July , 1828 . MONUMENT TO HARVARD , • VII . An Address delivered on occasion of the erection of a monument to John Harvard in the graveyard at Charlestown , on the 26th of ...
... LIBERTY , An Oration delivered at Charlestown , on the 4th of July , 1828 . MONUMENT TO HARVARD , • VII . An Address delivered on occasion of the erection of a monument to John Harvard in the graveyard at Charlestown , on the 26th of ...
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... liberty , the poems of Ho- mer appear . Some centuries , alike of political confusion and literary darkness , follow , and then the great constellation of their geniuses seems to rise at once . The stormy eloquence and the deep ...
... liberty , the poems of Ho- mer appear . Some centuries , alike of political confusion and literary darkness , follow , and then the great constellation of their geniuses seems to rise at once . The stormy eloquence and the deep ...
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... liberty in Greece began the decline of her letters and her arts , though her tumultuous democracies were succeeded by liberal and accomplished princes . Com- pare the literature of the Alexandrian with that of the Per- iclean age ; how ...
... liberty in Greece began the decline of her letters and her arts , though her tumultuous democracies were succeeded by liberal and accomplished princes . Com- pare the literature of the Alexandrian with that of the Per- iclean age ; how ...
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... liberty , but who did most shamefully betray the cause : " Reverere tantam de te expectationem , spem patriæ de te unicam . Reverere vultus et vulnera tot fortium virorum , quotquot pro libertate tam strenue decertârunt , manes etiam ...
... liberty , but who did most shamefully betray the cause : " Reverere tantam de te expectationem , spem patriæ de te unicam . Reverere vultus et vulnera tot fortium virorum , quotquot pro libertate tam strenue decertârunt , manes etiam ...
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... New England , from which , under a kind Providence , has flowed , not only the immediate success of the undertaking , but the astonishing train of consequences auspicious to the cause of liberty , 48 FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND .
... New England , from which , under a kind Providence , has flowed , not only the immediate success of the undertaking , but the astonishing train of consequences auspicious to the cause of liberty , 48 FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND .
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 167 - 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.
Page 583 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 381 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 622 - 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...
Page 213 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 427 - That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.
Page 390 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there...
Page 68 - 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?