Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Respect to the Memory of William Hickling Prescott, February 1, 1859Massachusetts historical society, 1859 - 53 oldal |
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7. oldal - ... prevalent sense of duty to God and love to man ; and that he has been taken from us with unimpaired faculties, and with a heart whose affections grew warmer and more tender to the last. At the end of a life like this, although suddenly terminated, he naturally left few wishes for posthumous fulfilment ; and the few that he did leave were of the simplest and most unpretending sort. But one was most characteristic and touching ; and, as it has been accomplished, it may fitly be mentioned here....
24. oldal - The man was more than his books. His character was loftier than all his reputation. So simple-minded and so great-minded ; so keen in his perceptions, but so kind in his judgments ; so resolute, but so unpretending ; so considerate of every one, and so tasking of himself; so full of the truest and warmest affections ; so merry in his temper, without overleaping a single due bound ; such spirit, but such equanimity ; so much thoughtfulness, without the least cast of sickliness ; doing good as by the...
5. oldal - Satis, satis est, quod vixit, vel ad aetatem vel ad gloriam." Nor will we omit to acknowledge it as a merciful dispensation of Providence, that he was taken at last by no lingering disease, and after no protracted decline, but in the very way which those who knew him best were not unaware that he himself both expected and desired. Inheriting a name which had been associated with the noblest patriotism in one generation, and with the highest judicial wisdom in another; and having imparted a fresh...
9. oldal - Christendom, an honored place in the company of the great masters of history in all countries and in all ages. Resolved, That, while we mourn the loss of one who has thus made our country and the world his debtors, we yet, in this moment of our sudden bereavement, grieve rather that we miss the associate and friend whom we loved, as he was loved of all who knew him, for the beauty, the purity, and the transparent sincerity, of his nature ; for his open and warm sympathies ; and for the faithful affections,...
25. oldal - ... own troubles, but curious and interested concerning an absence of several years in Europe which at that time I was about to commence. I found him, in fact, just as his mother afterwards described him to Dr. Frothingham, when she said: " I never in a single instance, groped my way across the apartment, to take my place at his side, that he did not salute me with some expression of good cheer, — not a single instance, — as if we were the patients, and his place were to comfort us.
11. oldal - Truth was his first aim, as far as he could detect it in the conflicting records of events ; and his next aim was to impress this truth, in its genuine colors, upon the reader. The characters and motives of men were weighed in the scales of justice, as they appeared to him after careful research and mature thought. In all these qualities of an accomplished historian, we may safely challenge for him a comparison with any other writer.
26. oldal - True born, and nursed with all the sciences. She can so mould Rome, and her monuments, Within the liquid marble of her lines, That they shall stand fresh and miraculous, Even when they mix with innovating dust ; In her sweet streams shall our brave Roman spirits Chase, and swim after death, with their choice deeds Shining on their white shoulders...
8. oldal - ... his true and loving nature, which would have been dearer to his heart than all the intellectual triumphs of his life. And now that all this is past ; now that we have laid him beside the father whom he so truly reverenced, — whom we all so reverenced, sir, — and the mother whom he...
14. oldal - Harvard, a classmate of Prescott, wrote of him, " I have never known one so little changed by the conventionalities of society and the hard trial of success and prosperity." This is indeed a trial of character. In meeting it and at the same time overcoming the handicap of practical blindness, Prescott put his inheritances of courage to a victorious test. So it is that his Life makes its strongest impression as a record of heroic struggle, a document in evidence of the...
25. oldal - In connection with this indomitable temper of Prescott's, with light-heartedness that never failed, may here be cited what his mother said, years after, to her pastor: " This is the very room where William was shut up for so many months in utter darkness. In all that trying season, when so much had to be endured, and our hearts were ready to fail us for fear, I never in a single instance groped my way across the Apartment to take my place at his side that he did not salute me with some hearty expression...