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... together in 1834 . Believe me , My Dear Sir , With sincere regard and respect , Always faithfully , Yours , BOSTON , May 12 , 1852 . ROBERT C. WINTHROP . PREFACE . SOME circumstances , connected with the progress and.
... together in 1834 . Believe me , My Dear Sir , With sincere regard and respect , Always faithfully , Yours , BOSTON , May 12 , 1852 . ROBERT C. WINTHROP . PREFACE . SOME circumstances , connected with the progress and.
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... respect more entirely contravened all previous experience in human affairs , than in affording materials for the minutest details in the history of its earliest ages . I should rather say , of its earliest days , for it has had no ages ...
... respect more entirely contravened all previous experience in human affairs , than in affording materials for the minutest details in the history of its earliest ages . I should rather say , of its earliest days , for it has had no ages ...
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... respect and love but his care and pains were so great for the common good , as therewith it is thought he oppressed himself , and shortened his days , and one morning , early in the spring , he came out of the cornfields , where he had ...
... respect and love but his care and pains were so great for the common good , as therewith it is thought he oppressed himself , and shortened his days , and one morning , early in the spring , he came out of the cornfields , where he had ...
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... respect , the encouragement , the cordial approbation and support of all good men . For myself , certainly , in whatever light I look at such an association , whether in regard to the present circumstances or the future pursuits of ...
... respect , the encouragement , the cordial approbation and support of all good men . For myself , certainly , in whatever light I look at such an association , whether in regard to the present circumstances or the future pursuits of ...
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... respect and veneration he has so richly earned . I would not be understood , Mr. President , in any spirit of indiscriminate eulogy , to ascribe to the merchants of Boston , past , present , or to come , an undivided and exclusive ...
... respect and veneration he has so richly earned . I would not be understood , Mr. President , in any spirit of indiscriminate eulogy , to ascribe to the merchants of Boston , past , present , or to come , an undivided and exclusive ...
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Page 599 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 224 - And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
Page 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 144 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Page 84 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 87 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 347 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Page 640 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Page 217 - But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Page 155 - Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.