An Oration Pronounced at Cambridge, Before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa. August 27, 1824. ...

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J.W. Palmer & Company, 1824 - 35 páginas
 

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Página 19 - If effects are to bear a constant proportion to their causes; if the energy of thought is to be commensurate with the masses which prompt it, and the masses it must penetrate; if eloquence is to grow in fervor with the weight of the interests it is to plead, and the grandeur of the assemblies it addresses; if efforts rise with the glory that is to crown them; in a word, if the faculties of the human mind, as we firmly believe, are capable of tension and achievement altogether indefinite; Nil actum...
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Página 8 - ... which can bind the generations of man together ; a future, which our own characters, our own actions, our own principles, will do something to stamp with glory or shame ; it is then that the inquiry becomes practical, momentous, and worthy the attention of every patriotic scholar. We then strive, as far as it is in the power of philosophical investigation to do it, to unfold our country's reverend auspices, to cast its great horoscope in the national sky, where many stars are waning, and many...

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