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... distinction . " Stay , stay ! my good friends , you have already made out a brilliant constellation of " bright particular stars " -may they prove guiding - stars to success . It is but an humble task to daguerreotype from spirited ...
... distinction . " Stay , stay ! my good friends , you have already made out a brilliant constellation of " bright particular stars " -may they prove guiding - stars to success . It is but an humble task to daguerreotype from spirited ...
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... distinction . 66 In the course of a long and active life , " says he , “ I recollect no occasion when I have experienced such eleva- tion of feeling . " Mr. Mason was destined for the law , and commenced the study of that profession ...
... distinction . 66 In the course of a long and active life , " says he , “ I recollect no occasion when I have experienced such eleva- tion of feeling . " Mr. Mason was destined for the law , and commenced the study of that profession ...
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... distinctions became too minute ; but his discrimination arose from a force of intellect , and quick - seeing , far - reaching sagacity , everywhere discern- ing his object , and pursuing it steadily . Whether it was popular or ...
... distinctions became too minute ; but his discrimination arose from a force of intellect , and quick - seeing , far - reaching sagacity , everywhere discern- ing his object , and pursuing it steadily . Whether it was popular or ...
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... Distinction , in any profession , is not the reward of such divided effort . There must be early , continuous , self - denying labor . Without such unwearied application , talents the most commanding will not give the impulse necessary ...
... Distinction , in any profession , is not the reward of such divided effort . There must be early , continuous , self - denying labor . Without such unwearied application , talents the most commanding will not give the impulse necessary ...
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... distinction at the bar . In the spring of 1782 , he was elected a member of the State Legislature , and in the autumn of the same year a mem- ber of the Executive Council . In 1783 , he married Miss Ambler ; a happy union , which ...
... distinction at the bar . In the spring of 1782 , he was elected a member of the State Legislature , and in the autumn of the same year a mem- ber of the Executive Council . In 1783 , he married Miss Ambler ; a happy union , which ...
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Page 25 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 165 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me ; my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched...
Page 25 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge...
Page 168 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 170 - I have been negligent of the duties of this day, the rest of the week has been unsuccessful and unhappy to my own secular employments; so that I could easily make an estimate of my successes in my own secular employments the week following, by the manner of my passing this day; and this I do not write lightly or inconsiderately, but upon a long and sound observation and experience.
Page 19 - No irreverence, no lightness, even no too familiar allusion to God and his attributes, ever escaped his lips. The very notion of a Supreme Being was, with him, made up of awe and solemnity. It filled the whole of his great mind with the strongest emotions. A man like him, with all his proper sentiments and sensibilities alive in him, must, in this state of existence, have something to believe and something to hope for; or else, as life is advancing to its close, and parting, all is heart-sinking...
Page 16 - The characteristics of Mr. Mason's mind, as I think, were real greatness, strength, and sagacity. He was great through strong sense and sound judgment, great by comprehensive views of things, great by high and elevated purposes. Perhaps sometimes he was too cautious and refined, and his distinctions became too minute ; but his discrimination arose from a force of intellect, and quick-seeing, far-reaching sagacity, everywhere discerning his object and pursuing it steadily.
Page 26 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to...
Page 26 - ... or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 165 - His life was, in every part of it, set off with that graceful modesty and reserve, which made his virtues more beautiful, the more they were cast in such agreeable shades. His religion...