An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society: February 23, 1852Press of the Historical Society, 1852 - 57 ページ |
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... sentiments and conduct he portrays . But History , while it illustrates and adorns , confines itself to facts , and to the relation of actual events . It is not far from truth to say , that well written and classic History is the Epic ...
... sentiments and conduct he portrays . But History , while it illustrates and adorns , confines itself to facts , and to the relation of actual events . It is not far from truth to say , that well written and classic History is the Epic ...
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... sentiment and feeling . I believe man is everywhere , more or less , a religious being ; that is to say , in all countries , and at all times , he feels a tie which connects him with an Invisible Power . It is true , indeed , and it is ...
... sentiment and feeling . I believe man is everywhere , more or less , a religious being ; that is to say , in all countries , and at all times , he feels a tie which connects him with an Invisible Power . It is true , indeed , and it is ...
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... sentiments , therefore , are the exemplar of human nature in general , Pope's of human nature as modified in particular rela- tions and circumstances ; and what is true of individ- ual man , in this respect , is true , also , of society ...
... sentiments , therefore , are the exemplar of human nature in general , Pope's of human nature as modified in particular rela- tions and circumstances ; and what is true of individ- ual man , in this respect , is true , also , of society ...
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... sentiment are the same , yet , he who would reason from Grecian liberty , or from Roman freedom , to our intelligent American liberty , would be holding a farthing candle to the orb of day . The magnificent funeral oration of Pericles ...
... sentiment are the same , yet , he who would reason from Grecian liberty , or from Roman freedom , to our intelligent American liberty , would be holding a farthing candle to the orb of day . The magnificent funeral oration of Pericles ...
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... sentiment of the country , of large comprehension , of long foresight , and of few words . They made no speeches for ostentation , they sat with closed doors , and their great maxim was " faire sans dire . " It is true , they only wrote ...
... sentiment of the country , of large comprehension , of long foresight , and of few words . They made no speeches for ostentation , they sat with closed doors , and their great maxim was " faire sans dire . " It is true , they only wrote ...
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29 ページ - 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...
8 ページ - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased : The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
42 ページ - We, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risK of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.
44 ページ - When your lordships look at the papers, transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
29 ページ - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
46 ページ - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
44 ページ - I must declare and avow, that, in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study, — I have read ''• Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that, for solidity of reasoning, force of ''"sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a "'" complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
47 ページ - UNBORN ages and visions of glory crowd upon my soul, the realization of all which, however, is in the hands and good pleasure of Almighty God ; but, under his divine blessing, it will be dependent on the character and the virtues of ourselves, and of our posterity. If classical history has been found to be, is now, and shall continue to be, the concomitant5 of free instituticiis, and of popular eloquence, what a field is opening to 08 for another Herod'otus,' another Thucydides,
39 ページ - Massachusetts Bay, to the execution of the late acts of parliament; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them in their opposition.
53 ページ - All the good, whether learned or unlearned, high or low, rich or poor, feel this day that there is one treasure common to them all, and that is the fame of Washington. They all recount...