Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... tion , in placing him at this school , to devote Benjamin , as the tithe of his sons , to the church . His early readiness in learning to read , ( " which , " says he , " must have been very early , for I do not remember when I could ...
... tion , in placing him at this school , to devote Benjamin , as the tithe of his sons , to the church . His early readiness in learning to read , ( " which , " says he , " must have been very early , for I do not remember when I could ...
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... tion are of greater importance . At ten years old , he was taken from this school to help his father in his business . These two years of interrupted schooling , from the age of eight to that of ten , were all the regular education ...
... tion are of greater importance . At ten years old , he was taken from this school to help his father in his business . These two years of interrupted schooling , from the age of eight to that of ten , were all the regular education ...
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... tion was fresh and warm . For a short time there is a pros- pect of a choice . The father has a nephew bred to the cutler's business in London , and just established in Boston . It is proposed that Benjamin shall be apprenticed to his ...
... tion was fresh and warm . For a short time there is a pros- pect of a choice . The father has a nephew bred to the cutler's business in London , and just established in Boston . It is proposed that Benjamin shall be apprenticed to his ...
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... tion , which eventually grows up into the University of Pennsylvania . At this stage of his career , the experiments by which the identity of the electric fluid and lightning is satisfactorily established place his name among the most ...
... tion , which eventually grows up into the University of Pennsylvania . At this stage of his career , the experiments by which the identity of the electric fluid and lightning is satisfactorily established place his name among the most ...
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... tion to reduce and suppress a piratical brigantine now infesting our coast , for the encouragement of that expedition under Peter Papillon , - " Voted , That the captors shall be entitled to the piratical vessel they shall take , and ...
... tion to reduce and suppress a piratical brigantine now infesting our coast , for the encouragement of that expedition under Peter Papillon , - " Voted , That the captors shall be entitled to the piratical vessel they shall take , and ...
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Page 181 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 42 - To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: That God governs in the affairs of men.
Page 218 - 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 150 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 36 - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way, and coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 42 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Page 153 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented until I have explored, the western country and traversed those lines, (or great part...
Page 627 - ... where clearer flames glow round the frozen pole: or under southern skies exalt their sails, led by new stars and borne by spicy gales! For me the balm shall bleed, and amber flow, the coral redden, and the ruby glow, the pearly shell its lucid globe infold, and Phoebus warm the ripening ore to gold.
Page 13 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he turned our attention to what was good, just, and prudent in the conduct of life...
Page 19 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.