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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... never was any of that kind done before in America . The Commencement began at ten o'clock , when the President walked first into the Church , the Board of Trustees following , and behind them those that were to take their Master's ...
... never was any of that kind done before in America . The Commencement began at ten o'clock , when the President walked first into the Church , the Board of Trustees following , and behind them those that were to take their Master's ...
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... admin- istration of Dr. Finley , or , it may be , of President Davies . The present Societies came into being un- der Dr. Witherspoon's administration , but he never became a 26 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHIG SOCIETY .
... admin- istration of Dr. Finley , or , it may be , of President Davies . The present Societies came into being un- der Dr. Witherspoon's administration , but he never became a 26 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHIG SOCIETY .
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... never became a member of either . The patriotic spirit by which both were animated was such that the name of no tory appears upon their catalogues . All the graduates of Nassau Hall proved true to their coun- try ; and , although the ...
... never became a member of either . The patriotic spirit by which both were animated was such that the name of no tory appears upon their catalogues . All the graduates of Nassau Hall proved true to their coun- try ; and , although the ...
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... never realize . It seemed as though all the Christian graces and virtues , freed from every human imperfection , had now clustered around him , and blended together , like the colors of the rainbow , into a living form of chastened ...
... never realize . It seemed as though all the Christian graces and virtues , freed from every human imperfection , had now clustered around him , and blended together , like the colors of the rainbow , into a living form of chastened ...
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... never or- dained on account of his inability to receive certain doctrines in the Confession of Faith . A Scotch clergyman , with whom he met , told him that he was in the same predicament . “ Then , how do you rec- oncile it to your ...
... never or- dained on account of his inability to receive certain doctrines in the Confession of Faith . A Scotch clergyman , with whom he met , told him that he was in the same predicament . “ Then , how do you rec- oncile it to your ...
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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.