Addresses Delivered at the Triennial Celebration ...1824 |
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... England , in this instance , has not disdained to copy from her descendants . To Boston belongs the honour of having been the first to establish this valuable institution . It is to be regretted , however , that our Library does not con ...
... England , in this instance , has not disdained to copy from her descendants . To Boston belongs the honour of having been the first to establish this valuable institution . It is to be regretted , however , that our Library does not con ...
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... England is equivalent to that of between three and four hundred . millions of men by direct labor . " † - This prodigious economy and accumulation of power , effected by the mechanic arts , are occupied in supplying the wants and ...
... England is equivalent to that of between three and four hundred . millions of men by direct labor . " † - This prodigious economy and accumulation of power , effected by the mechanic arts , are occupied in supplying the wants and ...
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... England in the time of Shakspeare ; and he puts one into the hand of his fantastic jester , as the text of his morality . In truth , if we wished to borrow from the arts a solemn monition of the vanity of human things , the clock might ...
... England in the time of Shakspeare ; and he puts one into the hand of his fantastic jester , as the text of his morality . In truth , if we wished to borrow from the arts a solemn monition of the vanity of human things , the clock might ...
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... under the influence of the principles of the age , the manacles of oppression will melt in the solvent of time . * Mr. Webster's speech at Oxford , England , 1839 . Power is not sufficiently limited , nor indeed can be 22.
... under the influence of the principles of the age , the manacles of oppression will melt in the solvent of time . * Mr. Webster's speech at Oxford , England , 1839 . Power is not sufficiently limited , nor indeed can be 22.
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... England , Granite and Ice . But the real staple of our hard soil is everywhere visible ; viz ; free labor and mechanic skill . These powers con- vert our granite into palaces , and make the isicles , which nature elaborates in our cold ...
... England , Granite and Ice . But the real staple of our hard soil is everywhere visible ; viz ; free labor and mechanic skill . These powers con- vert our granite into palaces , and make the isicles , which nature elaborates in our cold ...
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Страница 22 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Страница 16 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Страница 23 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Страница 13 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race, Their ruins, since the world began, Of HIM afford no other trace Than this, — THERE LIVED A MAN ! November 4, 1805.
Страница 10 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a* that. What though on hamely fare we dine. Wear hoddin grey, an' a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a
Страница 4 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Страница 16 - UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the...
Страница 31 - There was a little city (says he), and few men within it ; and there came a great King against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : " Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. " Then, said I, wisdom is better than strength ; wisdom is better than weapons of war ; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Страница 16 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Страница 6 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.