Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker], Volume 7American Unitarian Association, 1908 |
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Page 44
... influence of Dr. Franklin and Samuel Adams . They had de- vised means , and designed the objects of the assembly , and had laid out the work for it to do . On the 15th June , 1775 , he was appointed Com- mander - in - Chief of the ...
... influence of Dr. Franklin and Samuel Adams . They had de- vised means , and designed the objects of the assembly , and had laid out the work for it to do . On the 15th June , 1775 , he was appointed Com- mander - in - Chief of the ...
Page 48
... influence upon Washington . He continued in his business of land - surveying for about three years , till he was nineteen years old , and thus passed his youth . He was not brought up on books , but on the breast of things . Great ...
... influence upon Washington . He continued in his business of land - surveying for about three years , till he was nineteen years old , and thus passed his youth . He was not brought up on books , but on the breast of things . Great ...
Page 93
... influence in American affairs . He never made a speech . The public papers were drafted for him , and he read them when the occasion came . Washington was no democrat . Like the Federal party he belonged to , he had little confidence in ...
... influence in American affairs . He never made a speech . The public papers were drafted for him , and he read them when the occasion came . Washington was no democrat . Like the Federal party he belonged to , he had little confidence in ...
Page 103
... influence of the freethinkers , Boling- broke and Morgan , is obvious and decisive . He studied laboriously the law books deemed essen- tial in those days , some of which look rather frightful to young lawyers now that the legal road is ...
... influence of the freethinkers , Boling- broke and Morgan , is obvious and decisive . He studied laboriously the law books deemed essen- tial in those days , some of which look rather frightful to young lawyers now that the legal road is ...
Page 104
... influence on the administration of justice throughout all Christendom . Such study de- manded the reading of many books — a weariness to his flesh ; for he was lazy and impetuous by turns , and unfit for the scholar's slow , silent work ...
... influence on the administration of justice throughout all Christendom . Such study de- manded the reading of many books — a weariness to his flesh ; for he was lazy and impetuous by turns , and unfit for the scholar's slow , silent work ...
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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.