Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 38. köideThe Society, 1905 |
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... appeared to him who then filled the chair I now occupy . I do not need to be told that Gibbon and his work were , at the time of his death , looked upon askance here in New England . I have already , on another occasion , called ...
... appeared to him who then filled the chair I now occupy . I do not need to be told that Gibbon and his work were , at the time of his death , looked upon askance here in New England . I have already , on another occasion , called ...
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... appeared , and a perusal of these works now renders comprehensible the contemporary astonishment . The " Morals " ( published in 1869 ) is the better book of the two , and , if I may judge from my own personal experience , it may be ...
... appeared , and a perusal of these works now renders comprehensible the contemporary astonishment . The " Morals " ( published in 1869 ) is the better book of the two , and , if I may judge from my own personal experience , it may be ...
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... appeared twelve years earlier , the " Morals " has stood better the test of time . The intellectual history of so precocious a writer is inter- esting , and fortunately it has been related by Lecky himself . When he entered Trinity ...
... appeared twelve years earlier , the " Morals " has stood better the test of time . The intellectual history of so precocious a writer is inter- esting , and fortunately it has been related by Lecky himself . When he entered Trinity ...
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... appeared to me , the character of her people , her customs and institutions and policies , and the source and development of her mastership . - Mommsen's literary style was indeed superior in quality to that of most of the German ...
... appeared to me , the character of her people , her customs and institutions and policies , and the source and development of her mastership . - Mommsen's literary style was indeed superior in quality to that of most of the German ...
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... appeared that a few other members were still living . 2 Samuel A. Eliot , who was chosen on the Boston list , sent in promptly his resignation , thus virtually declining an election . Abolitionists of the Garrison school never figured ...
... appeared that a few other members were still living . 2 Samuel A. Eliot , who was chosen on the Boston list , sent in promptly his resignation , thus virtually declining an election . Abolitionists of the Garrison school never figured ...
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Page 64 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 204 - Congress against unlawful acts of individuals; yet that every right, created by, arising under, or dependent upon, the Constitution of the United States, may be protected and enforced by Congress by such means and in such manner as Congress, in the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object.
Page 172 - Federals show that the latter got a very complete smashing; and it seems not altogether unlikely that still greater disasters await them, and that even Washington or Baltimore may fall into the hands of the Confederates. If this should happen, would it not be time for us to consider whether in such a state of things England and France might not address the contending parties and recommend an arrangement upon the basis of separation?
Page 28 - The Comforter hath found me here, Upon this lonely road ; And many thousands now are sad — Wait the fulfilment of their fear ; For he must die who is their stay, Their glory disappear. A Power is passing from the earth To breathless Nature's dark abyss ; But when the great and good depart What is it more than this — That Man, who is from God sent forth, Doth yet again to God return ? — Such ebb and flow must ever be, Then wherefore should we mourn ? 1806.
Page 237 - I will turn My hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin : and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning : afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Page 386 - Bedford was strongly opposed to so long a term as seven years. He begged the committee to consider what the situation of the country would be, in case the first magistrate should be saddled on it for such a period, and it should be found on trial that he did not possess the qualifications ascribed to him, or should lose them after his appointment.
Page 203 - Congress, as the legislature of a sovereign nation, being expressly empowered by the constitution "to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States," and "to borrow money on the credit of the United States...
Page 62 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state; it cannot be.
Page 172 - I agree with you that the time is come for offering mediation to the United States Government with a view to the recognition of the independence of the Confederates. I agree further that in case of failure, we ought ourselves to recognise the Southern States as an independent State.
Page 202 - The question presented by the record is whether a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who at the time of his birth are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States...