An Oration Pronounced at Cambridge: Before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa. August 26, 1824 ...O. Everett, 1824 - 67 oldal |
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7. oldal
... Europe more propitious to liberty; why the Egyptians were abject and melancholy; the Greeks inventive, elegant, and versatile ; the Romans stern, saturnine, and, in matters of literature, for the most part servile imitators of a people ...
... Europe more propitious to liberty; why the Egyptians were abject and melancholy; the Greeks inventive, elegant, and versatile ; the Romans stern, saturnine, and, in matters of literature, for the most part servile imitators of a people ...
20. oldal
... European peasantry, in the place of, perhaps, the most substantial uncorrupted population on earth, the American yeomanry. Moreover the evil in question is with us a self-correcting evil. If the career of politics be more open, and the ...
... European peasantry, in the place of, perhaps, the most substantial uncorrupted population on earth, the American yeomanry. Moreover the evil in question is with us a self-correcting evil. If the career of politics be more open, and the ...
21. oldal
... Europe, to toil and bleed for a Power too great to keep or to resign. Where the compulsion stops short of these af. flicting extremities, still, under the governments in question, a large portion of the community is unavoidably destined ...
... Europe, to toil and bleed for a Power too great to keep or to resign. Where the compulsion stops short of these af. flicting extremities, still, under the governments in question, a large portion of the community is unavoidably destined ...
37. oldal
... Europe. have encouraged letters, it has not been in that of a steady cheering patronage. We may think there is abundant reason to acknowledge, that the ancient lesson is confirmed by modern experience, and that popular institutions are ...
... Europe. have encouraged letters, it has not been in that of a steady cheering patronage. We may think there is abundant reason to acknowledge, that the ancient lesson is confirmed by modern experience, and that popular institutions are ...
41. oldal
... Europe and America. Now mark a singular fatality as regards the connexion of this enlarged and diffused civilization, with the progress of letters and the excitement to intellectual exertion in any given state. Instead of one sole ...
... Europe and America. Now mark a singular fatality as regards the connexion of this enlarged and diffused civilization, with the progress of letters and the excitement to intellectual exertion in any given state. Instead of one sole ...
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65. oldal - 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.
45. oldal - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
45. oldal - Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
16. oldal - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
64. oldal - ... where the sons of freedom have been immured ; by the noble heads which have been brought to the block; by the wrecks of time, by the eloquent ruins of nations, they conjure us not to quench the light which is rising on the world. Greece cries to us, by the convulsed lips of her poisoned, dying Demosthenes ; and Rome pleads with us in the mute persuasion of her mangled Tully.
63. oldal - ... benignant auspices ; and it certainly rests with us to solve the great problem in human society — to settle, and that forever, the momentous question — whether mankind can be trusted with a purely popular system ? One might almost think, without extravagance, that the departed wise and good, of all places and times, are looking down from their happy seats to witness what shall now be done by us ; that they who lavished their treasures...
30. oldal - No strongly-marked and high-toned literature — poetry, eloquence, or ethics — ever appeared but in the pressure, the din, and crowd of great interests, great enterprises, perilous risks, and dazzling rewards. Statesmen, and warriors, and poets, and orators, and artists, start up under one and the same excitement. They are all branches of one stock. They form, and cheer, and stimulate, and, what is worth all the rest, understand each other ; and it is as truly the sentiment of the student, in...
60. oldal - The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine; The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine.