Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical SocietyThe Society, 1924 |
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... present , in whose achievements we feel a just pride , one of the most highly distinguished is President Eliot . I entered Harvard College when Dr. Hill was President and in my sophomore year Dr. Peabody was the Acting President . In ...
... present , in whose achievements we feel a just pride , one of the most highly distinguished is President Eliot . I entered Harvard College when Dr. Hill was President and in my sophomore year Dr. Peabody was the Acting President . In ...
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... present , but I know he will not object to my telling this story to a young man , who through rather forcible measures on my part , had procured admission to Harvard College as a special student . He had not the pre- vious education ...
... present , but I know he will not object to my telling this story to a young man , who through rather forcible measures on my part , had procured admission to Harvard College as a special student . He had not the pre- vious education ...
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... present in all his studies , and the humanist gave breadth and enrichment to the moral- ist . His interest in Dante , whom he knew so well , was at once aesthetic and ethical . The verse of the great Florentine was to him sphere melody ...
... present in all his studies , and the humanist gave breadth and enrichment to the moral- ist . His interest in Dante , whom he knew so well , was at once aesthetic and ethical . The verse of the great Florentine was to him sphere melody ...
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... present of some milk or some cream , and they will receive it as politely as if from the first gentleman in the land . The other day Colonel sent me half a dozen bottles of wine , and this token of goodwill passed between us . " I have ...
... present of some milk or some cream , and they will receive it as politely as if from the first gentleman in the land . The other day Colonel sent me half a dozen bottles of wine , and this token of goodwill passed between us . " I have ...
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... present year , efforts have been made to secure a modest appropriation for this purpose , but without success . There is other work to be done in making the original sources of our colonial history available and easy to use . A new ...
... present year , efforts have been made to secure a modest appropriation for this purpose , but without success . There is other work to be done in making the original sources of our colonial history available and easy to use . A new ...
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Page 380 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 388 - I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that " while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress.
Page 52 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 40 - A narrative and impartial discovery of the horrid Popish plot, carried on for burning and destroying the cities of London and Westminster, with their suburbs : setting forth the several...
Page 183 - Certain Conditions or Concessions, Agreed upon by William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and those who are the adventurers and purchasers in the same province the Eleventh of July, one thousand six hundred and eighty-one.
Page 139 - Our anxiety arising from the licentious and open resistance to the laws in the western counties of Pennsylvania has been increased by the proceedings of certain self-created societies relative to the laws and administration of the Government; proceedings, in our apprehension, founded in political error, calculated, if not intended, to disorganize our Government, and which, by inspiring delusive hopes of support, have been influential in misleading our fellow-citizens in the scene of insurrection.
Page 151 - Government has been just and impartial to foreign nations, that those internal regulations which have been established by law for the preservation of peace are in their nature proper, and that they have been fairly executed...
Page 390 - No receding by the Executive of the United States, on the slavery question, from the position assumed thereon in the late annual message to Congress, and in preceding documents. 3. No cessation of hostilities short of an end of the war and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the government.
Page 52 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Page 178 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.