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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... labor ; never more so , than in the hands of Mr. Adams . I presume no person in high office ever derived less assistance from those under him , or did more work with his own hands . No opinion , for which he was responsible , was ever ...
... labor ; never more so , than in the hands of Mr. Adams . I presume no person in high office ever derived less assistance from those under him , or did more work with his own hands . No opinion , for which he was responsible , was ever ...
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... labor , hardly needs to be told . Two incidents occurred during his administration , which ought not to be wholly passed over in this hasty sketch - one was the visit of Lafayette , whom Mr. Adams received , at the presidential mansion ...
... labor , hardly needs to be told . Two incidents occurred during his administration , which ought not to be wholly passed over in this hasty sketch - one was the visit of Lafayette , whom Mr. Adams received , at the presidential mansion ...
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... labor , which were his second - I had almost said his first - nature . My seat was , for two years , by his side ; and it would have scarcely more surprised me to miss one of the marble col- umns of the hall from its pedestal , than to ...
... labor , which were his second - I had almost said his first - nature . My seat was , for two years , by his side ; and it would have scarcely more surprised me to miss one of the marble col- umns of the hall from its pedestal , than to ...
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... labor in this department to be brought down to the starvation standard of Europe . He was also a firm and efficient champion of the Bank of the United States , then subsisting under a charter of Congress , and , up to that time ...
... labor in this department to be brought down to the starvation standard of Europe . He was also a firm and efficient champion of the Bank of the United States , then subsisting under a charter of Congress , and , up to that time ...
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... labor was too great , no attention too minute , to be bestowed by him in receiving and pre- senting the petitions which were poured into his hands . from every part of the country . No strength or vio- lence of opposition , or menaces ...
... labor was too great , no attention too minute , to be bestowed by him in receiving and pre- senting the petitions which were poured into his hands . from every part of the country . No strength or vio- lence of opposition , or menaces ...
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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.