Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... equal diffusion of political privileges and powers among the whole population , with the constant re- currence of elections , however favorable to civil liberty , are unfriendly to learning ; that they kindle only a political ambition ...
... equal diffusion of political privileges and powers among the whole population , with the constant re- currence of elections , however favorable to civil liberty , are unfriendly to learning ; that they kindle only a political ambition ...
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... equal terms , and extends the advantages of education , more equally , throughout the community ; if it provides a prompter and wider circulation of thought ; if , by raising the character of the masses , it swells to tens of thousands ...
... equal terms , and extends the advantages of education , more equally , throughout the community ; if it provides a prompter and wider circulation of thought ; if , by raising the character of the masses , it swells to tens of thousands ...
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... equal the fabulous numbers of the Chinese empire . This rate of increase has already produced the most striking phenomena . A few weeks after the opening of the revolutionary drama . at Lexington , the momentous intelligence that the ...
... equal the fabulous numbers of the Chinese empire . This rate of increase has already produced the most striking phenomena . A few weeks after the opening of the revolutionary drama . at Lexington , the momentous intelligence that the ...
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... equal laws and happy men . The primitive poets placed it in the Islands of the Blest ; the Doric bards dimly beheld it in the Hyperborean region ; the mystical sage of the Academy found it in his lost Atlantis ; and even the stern ...
... equal laws and happy men . The primitive poets placed it in the Islands of the Blest ; the Doric bards dimly beheld it in the Hyperborean region ; the mystical sage of the Academy found it in his lost Atlantis ; and even the stern ...
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... equal participation among the various maritime states , and is , in consequence , becoming less produc- tive to any one . While America remains , and will always remain , among the foremost commercial and naval states , an ample portion ...
... equal participation among the various maritime states , and is , in consequence , becoming less produc- tive to any one . While America remains , and will always remain , among the foremost commercial and naval states , an ample portion ...
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Page 30 - 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 41 - 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 167 - 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 583 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 381 - Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born.
Page 622 - 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 213 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 427 - That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.
Page 390 - 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 68 - Was it the winter's storm beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ? Was it hard labor and spare meals ? Was it disease ? Was it the tomahawk?