A Memorial of Stephen Salisbury of Worcester, MassPress of C. Hamilton, 1885 - 158 страници |
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Страница 46 - Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, 30 And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Страница 81 - For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.
Страница 57 - Winthrop took the very first honors, only to die two years afterwards, of consumption, at nineteen years of age. Mr. Salisbury was a warm and liberal friend of his Alma Mater, which conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1875, and of which he . was an Overseer for twelve years. He was also, for several years, a Representative for the town, and a Senator for the county, of Worcester, successively, in our State Legislature. I must not omit to mention that Mr. Salisbury was long associated...
Страница 128 - ... long since scorned as the father of lies, and he stood for a while in mute merit on the shelf, until respect and authority have been restored to him. And at this moment the most perfect dramatist of all time is assaulted, to rob him of his sock and his buskin, to give them to one who never desired them and could never wear them. Homer has suffered the common fate. It is in vain that he is always genial and attractive, elevating in sentiment, and in moral purity superior to the customs of his...
Страница 128 - ... with the confidence and admiration of mankind, appeal to Homer as their oracle. And if modern statesmen would acquaint themselves with the policy and the divine right of kings, they may go back to the ancient compendium, which Alexander declared to be, in his opinion,
Страница 49 - ... what advantage is there in life ? Or rather, what is there of arduous toil that is wanting to it ? But grant all that you may in its favor, it still certainly has its excess or its fit measure of duration. I am not, indeed, inclined to speak ill of life, as many and even wise men have often done, nor am I sorry to have lived ; for I have so lived that I do not think that I was born to no purpose.
Страница 103 - ... contain a number of elaborate essays by him. In 1883 he was sent out as director of the newly founded School of Classical Studies at Athens, became very ill on the way thither, and died soon after his return home. Hon. Stephen Salisbury, of Worcester, Mass., had been a member of our Society since 1860. He was one of the oldest members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for forty-four years a member of the American Antiquarian Society, and for thirty years its president and principal benefactor....
Страница 86 - Cast as a broken vessel by, Thy will I can no longer do, Yet while a daily death I die, Thy power I may in weakness show, My patience may Thy glory raise, My speechless woe proclaim Thy praise. 3 But since without Thy Spirit's might Thou know'st I nothing can endure, The help I ask in Jesus' right, The strength He did for me procure, Father, abundantly impart, And arm with love my feeble heart.
Страница 120 - ... be expended in the purchase of books in the Greek and Latin languages, and in books in other languages illustrating the Greek and Latin.
Страница 129 - Two of the ministers were present and with much moderation and tenderness endeavored to convince her of her errors ; to which she returned the grossest railings."* When history takes her place among the Muses and wields the witchery of imagination and passion, she gains a power over the opinions and memory of men, that she cannot have with the dry annals of truth. It is a glorious privilege, "when it moves in charity and turns on the poles of truth.