Addresses and Proceedings at the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Whig Society: Of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J., June 29th, 1869 |
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... interest ; the life of the greatest of its founders would be a history of our own country . Alas that the Life of James Madison , by the Hon . William C. Rives , should be but a grand torso . Can any one complete it ? In consequence of ...
... interest ; the life of the greatest of its founders would be a history of our own country . Alas that the Life of James Madison , by the Hon . William C. Rives , should be but a grand torso . Can any one complete it ? In consequence of ...
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... to the Whig Society which he had assist- ed in founding was most ardent , and he manifested his interest in it throughout life and remembered it even in his death . Although his salary was always 36 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHIG SOCIETY .
... to the Whig Society which he had assist- ed in founding was most ardent , and he manifested his interest in it throughout life and remembered it even in his death . Although his salary was always 36 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHIG SOCIETY .
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... interest in him , gave him a few lessons , and these at long intervals and usually on Saturday evenings ; but his application was such that he became a good Latin scholar and had made considerable progress in Greek before he was ...
... interest in him , gave him a few lessons , and these at long intervals and usually on Saturday evenings ; but his application was such that he became a good Latin scholar and had made considerable progress in Greek before he was ...
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... interests . From Richmond he returned to his home to pass the remaining years of his life in his quiet retreat ... interest in public affairs , he would not permit the publication of these precious memorials until he had himself ...
... interests . From Richmond he returned to his home to pass the remaining years of his life in his quiet retreat ... interest in public affairs , he would not permit the publication of these precious memorials until he had himself ...
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... interest in the prosperity of the American Whig Society , which he had founded in connexion with a band of noble young men , all of whom preceded him in their death . All the signers of the Declaration of Independence , all the signers ...
... interest in the prosperity of the American Whig Society , which he had founded in connexion with a band of noble young men , all of whom preceded him in their death . All the signers of the Declaration of Independence , all the signers ...
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Page 166 - Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
Page 55 - ... here the guardian shade, And sent soft waters murmuring by; Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose. Smit with those charms, that must decay, I grieve to see your future doom; They died — nor were those flowers more gay, The flowers that did in Eden bloom; Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space...
Page 170 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 167 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute: And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 62 - From thence he went to Congress, then consisting of few members. Trained in these successive schools, he acquired a habit of self-possession, which placed at ready command the rich resources of his luminous and discriminating mind, and of his extensive information, and rendered him the first of...
Page 54 - FAIR flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet: No roving foot shall crush thee here, No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, And planted here the guardian shade, And sent soft waters murmuring by; Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose.
Page 51 - At Eutaw Springs the valiant died; Their limbs with dust are covered o'er— Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How many heroes are no more! If in this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber here!
Page 69 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 171 - ... national plan for training young children to virtuous habits, and thereby rooting out crimes from the land. And this interdict, under which both parties join in laying their country, is by each pronounced to be necessary for the sacred interests of religion. Of religion ! Oh, gracious God ! Was ever the name of thy holy ordinances so impiously profaned before? Was ever before, thy best gift to man — his reason — so bewildered by blind bigotry, or savage intolerance, or wild fanaticism ; bewildered...
Page 51 - That proves the evening shall be clear. They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; '* Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear — but left the shield.