Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other DiscoursesMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 419 pages |
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... light , to cheer the long and gloomy ages of the Memphian and Babylonian despots . Not an historian , not an orator , not a poet , as has been already observed , is heard of in their annals . When you ask , what was achieved by the ...
... light , to cheer the long and gloomy ages of the Memphian and Babylonian despots . Not an historian , not an orator , not a poet , as has been already observed , is heard of in their annals . When you ask , what was achieved by the ...
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... light which is rising on the world . Greece cries to us , by the convulsed lips of her poisoned , dy- ing Demosthenes ; and Rome pleads with us , in the mute persuasion of her mangled Tully . They address us , each and all , in the ...
... light which is rising on the world . Greece cries to us , by the convulsed lips of her poisoned , dy- ing Demosthenes ; and Rome pleads with us , in the mute persuasion of her mangled Tully . They address us , each and all , in the ...
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... light and dark- ness ; of great illumination , and of utter obscurity ; and of all intermediate degrees of intelligence , cultivation , and liberty . But in the seeming confusion of the nar- rative , our attention is arrested by three ...
... light and dark- ness ; of great illumination , and of utter obscurity ; and of all intermediate degrees of intelligence , cultivation , and liberty . But in the seeming confusion of the nar- rative , our attention is arrested by three ...
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... light and promise . With the progress of freedom , in Greece , that of the mind kept pace ; and an age , both of achievement and of hope , succeeded , of which the influence is still felt in the world . But the greater part of mankind ...
... light and promise . With the progress of freedom , in Greece , that of the mind kept pace ; and an age , both of achievement and of hope , succeeded , of which the influence is still felt in the world . But the greater part of mankind ...
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... light , uncertain , selfish spirits . They made it a grave , solemn , self - denying expedition . They cast a broad shadow of thought and seriousness over the cause , and , if this sometimes deepened into melancholy and bit- terness ...
... light , uncertain , selfish spirits . They made it a grave , solemn , self - denying expedition . They cast a broad shadow of thought and seriousness over the cause , and , if this sometimes deepened into melancholy and bit- terness ...
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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 161 - 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 perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 330 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 260 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 66 - ... prospects of a future state, and bound across the unknown sea. I behold it pursuing, with a thousand misgivings, the uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore. I see them now scantily supplied with provisions ; crowded almost to suffocation in their illstored prison ; delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route, — and now driven in fury before the raging tempest,...
Page 196 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 39 - 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 251 - Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface.
Page 245 - 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 63 - The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor is my admiration awakened by her armies, mustered for the battles of Europe ; her navies, overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire, grasping the furthest East.