Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2American Stationer's Company, 1836 - 637 pages |
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... America . In this subject , that curiosity , which every scholar feels in tracing and comparing the springs of mental activity , is height- ened and dignified , by the important connexion of the 1 ORATION PRONOUNCED AT CAMBRIDGE, BEFORE ...
... America . In this subject , that curiosity , which every scholar feels in tracing and comparing the springs of mental activity , is height- ened and dignified , by the important connexion of the 1 ORATION PRONOUNCED AT CAMBRIDGE, BEFORE ...
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... America . It may justly be accounted the great peculiarity of ancient days , compared with modern , that in antiquity there was , upon the whole , but one civilized and literary nation at a time in the world . Art and refinement ...
... America . It may justly be accounted the great peculiarity of ancient days , compared with modern , that in antiquity there was , upon the whole , but one civilized and literary nation at a time in the world . Art and refinement ...
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... America moved with so firm and bold a step as at the present day . If there is any faith in our country's auspices , this great continent , in no remote futurity , will be filled up with a homogeneous population ; with the mightiest ...
... America moved with so firm and bold a step as at the present day . If there is any faith in our country's auspices , this great continent , in no remote futurity , will be filled up with a homogeneous population ; with the mightiest ...
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... America , we shall find we have millions more to manage . ' * Many individuals are in this house , who were arrived at years of discretion when these words of Burke were uttered , and the two millions , which Great Britain was then to ...
... America , we shall find we have millions more to manage . ' * Many individuals are in this house , who were arrived at years of discretion when these words of Burke were uttered , and the two millions , which Great Britain was then to ...
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... America ! Population advances westward with a rapidity , which numbers may describe indeed , but cannot represent , with any vivacity , to the mind . The wilderness , which one year is impassable , is traversed the next by the caravans ...
... America ! Population advances westward with a rapidity , which numbers may describe indeed , but cannot represent , with any vivacity , to the mind . The wilderness , which one year is impassable , is traversed the next by the caravans ...
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Page 27 - 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 427 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 585 - 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 553 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
Page 637 - Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire.
Page 428 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 37 - 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 128 - ' These shall resist the empire of decay, When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away: Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, But that which warmed it once can never die.
Page 372 - 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 324 - 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 to perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.