"Warrington" Pen-portraits: A Collection of Personal and Political Reminiscences from 1848 to 1876, from the Writings of William S. Robinson. With Memoir, and Extracts from Diary and Letters Never Before PublishedWilliam Stevens Robinson |
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... Hundred , ' sung by the assembled multitude , the words by Rev. Mr. Emerson . ” He also writes that he went to two funerals in one day , having nothing else to do , and heard sermons by Dr. Ripley and Rev. Mr. Emerson . Quite an ...
... Hundred , ' sung by the assembled multitude , the words by Rev. Mr. Emerson . ” He also writes that he went to two funerals in one day , having nothing else to do , and heard sermons by Dr. Ripley and Rev. Mr. Emerson . Quite an ...
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... hundred groans in any market . " His witty sayings and stories are still remembered by the men over whom , through his paper , he exerted a wide influ- ence . " The Advertiser " was a strong temperance paper , and welcomed to its ...
... hundred groans in any market . " His witty sayings and stories are still remembered by the men over whom , through his paper , he exerted a wide influ- ence . " The Advertiser " was a strong temperance paper , and welcomed to its ...
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... hundred delegates to this convention , a hundred and ninety - four of whom were from Middlesex County . They were addressed by Clay , Webster , and other great men of the day ; and the first Whig Presi- dent , William II . Harrison ...
... hundred delegates to this convention , a hundred and ninety - four of whom were from Middlesex County . They were addressed by Clay , Webster , and other great men of the day ; and the first Whig Presi- dent , William II . Harrison ...
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... hundred men were comfortably seated in a tent at dinner . Elihu Burritt was invited to participate in these festivities , and sent his regrets to IIon . Samuel Hoar , saying in his letter , " As Concord spoke first in the cause of ...
... hundred men were comfortably seated in a tent at dinner . Elihu Burritt was invited to participate in these festivities , and sent his regrets to IIon . Samuel Hoar , saying in his letter , " As Concord spoke first in the cause of ...
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... hundred of his subscribers should cry , ' Stop my paper ! ' he would have an abundance left . 66 Reader , you see our relative situations . He flourishes ' like a green bay - tree . ' We must leave off this scribbling , and go to ...
... hundred of his subscribers should cry , ' Stop my paper ! ' he would have an abundance left . 66 Reader , you see our relative situations . He flourishes ' like a green bay - tree . ' We must leave off this scribbling , and go to ...
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Page 161 - Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
Page 171 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 579 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them 'glittering generalities.
Page 321 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 320 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 580 - These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect — the supplanting the principles of free government, and restoring those of classification, caste, and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned heads plotting against the people. They are the vanguard, the miners and sappers of returning despotism.
Page 580 - This is a world of compensations ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 565 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 224 - In vain we tune our formal songs ; In vain we strive to rise ; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies.
Page 162 - The world which lasts when I am dead; Which never was the friend of one, Nor promised love it could not give, But lit for all its generous sun, And lived itself, and made us live.