Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker], Volume 7American Unitarian Association, 1908 |
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... Washington , Adams and Jefferson were written in the latter part of the sum- mer of 1858 , the last productive season of Parker's hard - working life . Owing to his increasing ill - health his society had requested him to extend his ...
... Washington , Adams and Jefferson were written in the latter part of the sum- mer of 1858 , the last productive season of Parker's hard - working life . Owing to his increasing ill - health his society had requested him to extend his ...
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... minds and hearts of his own generation and which make these biographical studies a permanent contribution to American literature . SAMUEL A. ELIOT . CONTENTS PAGE I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN II . GEORGE WASHINGTON III viii EDITOR'S PREFACE.
... minds and hearts of his own generation and which make these biographical studies a permanent contribution to American literature . SAMUEL A. ELIOT . CONTENTS PAGE I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN II . GEORGE WASHINGTON III viii EDITOR'S PREFACE.
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... Washington was the Franklin of camps , but Franklin was the Washington of courts ; and the masterly skill of the great diplomatist , the patience which might tire but which never gave out ; the extraordinary shrewdness , dexterity ...
... Washington was the Franklin of camps , but Franklin was the Washington of courts ; and the masterly skill of the great diplomatist , the patience which might tire but which never gave out ; the extraordinary shrewdness , dexterity ...
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... Washington , nor indeed any of the great men who helped to make that instrument , thought it perfect , or worshipped it as an idol . In the Constitutional Convention Franklin consented to the continuance of slavery in the Union . I do ...
... Washington , nor indeed any of the great men who helped to make that instrument , thought it perfect , or worshipped it as an idol . In the Constitutional Convention Franklin consented to the continuance of slavery in the Union . I do ...
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... What a character ! Well said a French poet , - " Legislator of one world ! Benefactor of two ! All mankind owes to you a debt of gratitude . " II GEORGE WASHINGTON In the beginning of the eighteenth century 40 HISTORIC AMERICANS.
... What a character ! Well said a French poet , - " Legislator of one world ! Benefactor of two ! All mankind owes to you a debt of gratitude . " II GEORGE WASHINGTON In the beginning of the eighteenth century 40 HISTORIC AMERICANS.
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Page 380 - 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 197 - 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 370 - 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 37 - 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 332 - ... 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 124 - 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 104 - 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 394 - 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 181 - 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 219 - 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.