Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... tion . In reference to great principles , I do not find that the feelings under which I wrote , heightened as they were by the ardor of youth , led me to maintain opinions which , after the lapse of twenty - five eventful years ...
... tion . In reference to great principles , I do not find that the feelings under which I wrote , heightened as they were by the ardor of youth , led me to maintain opinions which , after the lapse of twenty - five eventful years ...
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... tion of independence , had given that kind of importance to recent events , that hold upon the imagination , —which , in a slower march of things , can usually be the result of nothing but a lapse of centuries . There were still linger ...
... tion of independence , had given that kind of importance to recent events , that hold upon the imagination , —which , in a slower march of things , can usually be the result of nothing but a lapse of centuries . There were still linger ...
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... tion , becomes the boundary , not merely of governments , but of languages and literature , of institutions and character . We may sometimes think we can trace extraordinary skill in the liberal arts to the existence of quarries of fine ...
... tion , becomes the boundary , not merely of governments , but of languages and literature , of institutions and character . We may sometimes think we can trace extraordinary skill in the liberal arts to the existence of quarries of fine ...
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... tion of the government are , in the order of time , the first of mere human concerns , they must ever retain a paramount importance . Every thing else must come in by opportunity ; this , of necessity , must be provided for : otherwise ...
... tion of the government are , in the order of time , the first of mere human concerns , they must ever retain a paramount importance . Every thing else must come in by opportunity ; this , of necessity , must be provided for : otherwise ...
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... tion produces a large amount of cultivated talent , not needed for the service of the state . As far , then , as the talent and activity of the country are at present called forth , in a political direction , it is fairly to be ascribed ...
... tion produces a large amount of cultivated talent , not needed for the service of the state . As far , then , as the talent and activity of the country are at present called forth , in a political direction , it is fairly to be ascribed ...
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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?