The Works of Theodore Parker: Historic AmericansAmerican Unitarian association, 1908 |
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... seems to have per- ished in our time . So the leaves which grew on the Charter Oak , in Connecticut , a hundred years since , have all perished ; but every crop of leaves left its ring all round the trunk . The Almanac has perished ...
... seems to have per- ished in our time . So the leaves which grew on the Charter Oak , in Connecticut , a hundred years since , have all perished ; but every crop of leaves left its ring all round the trunk . The Almanac has perished ...
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... seems so great . I mean so generally able , various , original , and strong . Others were quite superior to him in specialties of intellect , - metaphysical , mathe- matical , and poetical . Many surpassed him in wide learning , of ...
... seems so great . I mean so generally able , various , original , and strong . Others were quite superior to him in specialties of intellect , - metaphysical , mathe- matical , and poetical . Many surpassed him in wide learning , of ...
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... seem to have at- tended to any of the fine arts , with the single exception of music . He was not fond of works of imagination , and in his boyhood he sold Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to buy Burton's Historical Collections . Perhaps he ...
... seem to have at- tended to any of the fine arts , with the single exception of music . He was not fond of works of imagination , and in his boyhood he sold Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to buy Burton's Historical Collections . Perhaps he ...
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... seem to reach them by that logical process which is called induction . But he rather perfected his wonderful in- ventions by his own simple greatness of understand- ing and of reason , a spontaneous instinct of causality , which led him ...
... seem to reach them by that logical process which is called induction . But he rather perfected his wonderful in- ventions by his own simple greatness of understand- ing and of reason , a spontaneous instinct of causality , which led him ...
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... seems to me he was the only American that could have accomplished that work ; and without the aid of France , it now seems that the Revolution would have failed , and would have been called a " Rebellion ; " Hancock and the Adamses had ...
... seems to me he was the only American that could have accomplished that work ; and without the aid of France , it now seems that the Revolution would have failed , and would have been called a " Rebellion ; " Hancock and the Adamses had ...
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Page 382 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 199 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 372 - Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow.
Page 39 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Page 334 - ... by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion,...
Page 126 - But my country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Page 106 - The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 396 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 183 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our...
Page 221 - In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.