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... of that greatest court of justice on the face of the earth were moved to admiration . It was thought that there was nothing new to say against the tax , that all argument had been exhausted . But 8 JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE.
... of that greatest court of justice on the face of the earth were moved to admiration . It was thought that there was nothing new to say against the tax , that all argument had been exhausted . But 8 JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE.
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... Justice Jackson's place . But I have to be ready all the same , and that accounts for my having to stay here when I really ought to be with you in Stock- bridge . " I have moved to the Union League where I have got for a wonder a big ...
... Justice Jackson's place . But I have to be ready all the same , and that accounts for my having to stay here when I really ought to be with you in Stock- bridge . " I have moved to the Union League where I have got for a wonder a big ...
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... centuries to come , and convey to the gen- erations who knew him not some idea of the figure and the features of Rufus Choate . Neither bronze nor marble can do him justice . Not Rembrandt himself could re- THE NINETIES 53.
... centuries to come , and convey to the gen- erations who knew him not some idea of the figure and the features of Rufus Choate . Neither bronze nor marble can do him justice . Not Rembrandt himself could re- THE NINETIES 53.
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... Justice , at whose shrine he worshipped . They desire also to express publicly on this occasion their admiration of the statue itself , as a work of art , and a faithful portrait , in form and feature , of the living man as he abides in ...
... Justice , at whose shrine he worshipped . They desire also to express publicly on this occasion their admiration of the statue itself , as a work of art , and a faithful portrait , in form and feature , of the living man as he abides in ...
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... justice to the great ideal of both , he adds : ' Out of Burke might be cut 50 Mackintoshes , 175 Macaulays , 40 Jeffreys and 250 Sir Robert Peels , and leave him greater than Pitt and Fox together . ' In the constant company of these ...
... justice to the great ideal of both , he adds : ' Out of Burke might be cut 50 Mackintoshes , 175 Macaulays , 40 Jeffreys and 250 Sir Robert Peels , and leave him greater than Pitt and Fox together . ' In the constant company of these ...
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Page 303 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 365 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 295 - One army of the living God, To his command we bow ; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 296 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 61 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 303 - And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one half of his estate (it being in all about £1700) towards the erecting of a college, and all his library...
Page 165 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Page 55 - From that rough pine cradle, which is still preserved in the room where he was born, to his premature grave at the age of fifty-nine, it was one long course of training and discipline of mind and character, without pause or rest. It began with that well-thumbed and dog's-eared Bible from Hog Island, its leaves actually worn away by the pious hands that had turned them, read daily in the family from January to December, in at Genesis and out at Revelations every two years; and when a new child was...
Page 176 - ... which bears still his illustrious name. It is the smallest and at the same time the greatest street in the world, because it lies at the hub of the gigantic wheel which encircles the globe under the name of the British Empire. It is all American. I have shown you why it is called Downing Street. But why, Lord Salisbury, is it called a street? I have always thought that a street was a way through from one place to some other place. This does not come within that definition. I have heard it called...
Page 281 - Legislature, by the resistless power of the Press, or, worst of all, by the ruthless rapacity of an unbridled majority, to rescue the scapegoat and restore him to his proper place in the world—all this seemed to me to furnish a field worthy of any man's ambition.