Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other DiscoursesMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 419 էջ |
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... MOTIVES TO INTELLECTUAL EXERTION , IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . In * An Oration , pronounced at Cambridge , before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa , August 26 , 1824 . the discussion of this subject , that curiosity , which.
... MOTIVES TO INTELLECTUAL EXERTION , IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . In * An Oration , pronounced at Cambridge , before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa , August 26 , 1824 . the discussion of this subject , that curiosity , which.
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... United States . It is not my purpose to detain you with so trite a topic , as the praises of free political institutions ; but to ask your attention to the natural operation of a rep- resentative republican system , on the character of ...
... United States . It is not my purpose to detain you with so trite a topic , as the praises of free political institutions ; but to ask your attention to the natural operation of a rep- resentative republican system , on the character of ...
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... United States , we lose that powerful spring of action , which exists in the patronage of strong hereditary governments , and must proceed from the Crown . I believe it is a preva- lent opinion , abroad , among those who entertain the ...
... United States , we lose that powerful spring of action , which exists in the patronage of strong hereditary governments , and must proceed from the Crown . I believe it is a preva- lent opinion , abroad , among those who entertain the ...
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... United States , gov- erned , from the first , by absolute power , and posses- sing all the advantages , which can flow from what is called a strong government . It may be safely left to the impartial judgement of mankind , to compare ...
... United States , gov- erned , from the first , by absolute power , and posses- sing all the advantages , which can flow from what is called a strong government . It may be safely left to the impartial judgement of mankind , to compare ...
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... United States of America . Hith- erto , in the main , the world has seen but two forms of political government , free governments in small states , and arbitrary governments in large ones . Though va- rious shades of both have appeared ...
... United States of America . Hith- erto , in the main , the world has seen but two forms of political government , free governments in small states , and arbitrary governments in large ones . Though va- rious shades of both have appeared ...
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Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection ... Edward Everett Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
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Էջ 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...
Էջ 258 - 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.
Էջ 66 - I see it now, that one solitary, adventurous vessel, the Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the 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.
Էջ 328 - 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.
Էջ 234 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts Where I shall reign with God.
Էջ 159 - 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.
Էջ 194 - 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 249 - 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.
Էջ 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.