A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered at the Request of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall, April 15, 1848 ...Dutton and Wentworth, 1848 - 71 páginas |
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... monuments of art shall have crumbled into dust . By his death the country has lost a pure patriot , science an ar- dent votary , and the cause of human freedom a devoted friend . But it is not as a public man merely that we are to ...
... monuments of art shall have crumbled into dust . By his death the country has lost a pure patriot , science an ar- dent votary , and the cause of human freedom a devoted friend . But it is not as a public man merely that we are to ...
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... monuments of art , that the world has ever seen , are covered with the soil of twenty centuries . The works of the age of Pericles , lie at the foot of the Acropolis in indiscriminate ruin . The ploughshare turns up the marble which the ...
... monuments of art , that the world has ever seen , are covered with the soil of twenty centuries . The works of the age of Pericles , lie at the foot of the Acropolis in indiscriminate ruin . The ploughshare turns up the marble which the ...
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... monuments has been watered by the tears of the widow , the orphan , or the patriot . But generations have passed away , and mourners and mourned have sunk together into forgetfulness . The aged crone , or the smooth - tongued beadle ...
... monuments has been watered by the tears of the widow , the orphan , or the patriot . But generations have passed away , and mourners and mourned have sunk together into forgetfulness . The aged crone , or the smooth - tongued beadle ...
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... monument stands , raising its head to the skies , and challenging , from the world , respect and admiration for the spot where a mili- tary achievement was performed , which , in its results , in the long career of its consequences , in ...
... monument stands , raising its head to the skies , and challenging , from the world , respect and admiration for the spot where a mili- tary achievement was performed , which , in its results , in the long career of its consequences , in ...
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... monument should be raised to the memory of that distin- guished soldier . Gentlemen , I have no right to occupy much of your time . My voice is a little too familiar to you all . There are others to whom you will listen with more ...
... monument should be raised to the memory of that distin- guished soldier . Gentlemen , I have no right to occupy much of your time . My voice is a little too familiar to you all . There are others to whom you will listen with more ...
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Página 24 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 71 - 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.
Página 11 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Página 19 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 35 - But if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Página 60 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 5 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 20 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 24 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Página 71 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great Inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.