Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... individual and public fortune ; a future , toward which we are daily and rapidly swept forward , and with which we stand in the dearest connection that can bind the generations of men together ; a future , AMERICAN LITERATURE . 11.
... individual and public fortune ; a future , toward which we are daily and rapidly swept forward , and with which we stand in the dearest connection that can bind the generations of men together ; a future , AMERICAN LITERATURE . 11.
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... standing army , and a military police , would tend to a more general and more fruit- ful development of mental energy , or greater leisure , on the part of educated men , to engage in literary pursuits ? It is obviously as impossible ...
... standing army , and a military police , would tend to a more general and more fruit- ful development of mental energy , or greater leisure , on the part of educated men , to engage in literary pursuits ? It is obviously as impossible ...
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... stand all things , recoils in horror , and in the contemplation of which , meek - eyed Patience folds her hands in despair . When we have reflected on these things , and turn our thoughts back to our poor republican land ; to our frugal ...
... stand all things , recoils in horror , and in the contemplation of which , meek - eyed Patience folds her hands in despair . When we have reflected on these things , and turn our thoughts back to our poor republican land ; to our frugal ...
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... power of Gre- cian genius , that the invention itself has been transmitted to the world . The Egyptian architects could erect structures , which , after three thousand years , are still standing 24 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
... power of Gre- cian genius , that the invention itself has been transmitted to the world . The Egyptian architects could erect structures , which , after three thousand years , are still standing 24 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
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... standing also . With the decline of 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 ...
... standing also . With the decline of 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 ...
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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?