Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2American Stationer's Company, 1836 - 637 pages |
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... whole direction and influence of affairs ; all the trusts and honors of society ; the power of making , abrogating , and administering the laws ; the whole civil authority and sway , from the highest post in the government to the ...
... whole direction and influence of affairs ; all the trusts and honors of society ; the power of making , abrogating , and administering the laws ; the whole civil authority and sway , from the highest post in the government to the ...
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... whole strength of the society must be employed in its support and defence . Though we are constantly receding from these stages , we have not wholly left them . Even our rapidly increasing population is , and will for some time remain ...
... whole strength of the society must be employed in its support and defence . Though we are constantly receding from these stages , we have not wholly left them . Even our rapidly increasing population is , and will for some time remain ...
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... whole . They encourage nature to perfect her work ; they make education , the soul's nutri- ment , cheap ; they bring up remote and shrinking talent into the cheerful field of competition ; in a thousand ways they provide an audience ...
... whole . They encourage nature to perfect her work ; they make education , the soul's nutri- ment , cheap ; they bring up remote and shrinking talent into the cheerful field of competition ; in a thousand ways they provide an audience ...
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... whole , however , the modern history of literature bears but a cold testimony to the genial influ- ence of the governments , under which it has grown up . Dante and Petrarch composed their beautiful works in exile ; Boccacio complains ...
... whole , however , the modern history of literature bears but a cold testimony to the genial influ- ence of the governments , under which it has grown up . Dante and Petrarch composed their beautiful works in exile ; Boccacio complains ...
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... . Though various shades of both have appeared , at different times , in the world , yet on the whole , the political ingenuity of man has never found out the mode of extending liberal institutions beyond 24 EVERETT'S ORATIONS .
... . Though various shades of both have appeared , at different times , in the world , yet on the whole , the political ingenuity of man has never found out the mode of extending liberal institutions beyond 24 EVERETT'S ORATIONS .
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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.