A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered at the Request of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall, April 15, 1848 ...Dutton and Wentworth, 1848 - 71 páginas |
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... heart to its inmost fibre . Easy did I say ? The difficulty will rather be to avoid these topics of contro- versy , and yet do any thing like justice to the occasion and the theme . I am sure that I shall consult your feelings not less ...
... heart to its inmost fibre . Easy did I say ? The difficulty will rather be to avoid these topics of contro- versy , and yet do any thing like justice to the occasion and the theme . I am sure that I shall consult your feelings not less ...
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... heart than he entered it . It was , at this time , his purpose , as he informed me him- self , on retiring from office , to devote himself to literary labors , and especially to writing the history of his father's life and times . Some ...
... heart than he entered it . It was , at this time , his purpose , as he informed me him- self , on retiring from office , to devote himself to literary labors , and especially to writing the history of his father's life and times . Some ...
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... heart , which knew not the fear of man ; and his religious spirit , which feared God in all things , constantly , profoundly , and practi- cally . A person of truer courage , physical and moral , I think never lived . In whatever ...
... heart , which knew not the fear of man ; and his religious spirit , which feared God in all things , constantly , profoundly , and practi- cally . A person of truer courage , physical and moral , I think never lived . In whatever ...
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... heart , strong in the fear of God , -the last great dominant principle of his life and character . There was the hiding of his power . There it was that he exhibited , in its true type , the sterling quality of the good old stock of ...
... heart , strong in the fear of God , -the last great dominant principle of his life and character . There was the hiding of his power . There it was that he exhibited , in its true type , the sterling quality of the good old stock of ...
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... heart - felt eulogies , in both Houses of Congress , came from those who had been his most determined political opponents . Party animosities were all forgotten ; the politician was merged in the higher character of the man ; and the ...
... heart - felt eulogies , in both Houses of Congress , came from those who had been his most determined political opponents . Party animosities were all forgotten ; the politician was merged in the higher character of the man ; and the ...
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Página 24 - 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.
Página 71 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 11 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Página 19 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 35 - But if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Página 60 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans; we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 5 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 20 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 24 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!
Página 71 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great Inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.