A Discourse Delivered Before the Rhode-Island Historical Society, on the Evening of Thursday, February 1, 1849Gladding and Proud, 1849 - 23 strán (strany) |
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Strana 15 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Strana 3 - AND HOUGHTON. \ DISCOURSE. GENTLEMEN OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: IT is not without some serious misgivings, that I venture to appear before you this evening. I have been admonished that those who have preceded me in the performance of this honorable duty, had brought mature reflection to their task, and laid before you the results of long and profound investigation. I have felt that a few hours, snatched from the engrossing cares of professional...
Strana 15 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius sera. ; Credo equidem : vivos ducent de marmore vultus ; Orabunt causas melius...
Strana 14 - ... seem dependent upon the caprices of individual will. But if we look from a higher point of view, and embrace a more extended range of observation, so as to comprise in one continuous whole, the history of every age and of every nation, we shall discover amidst this apparent insulation, certain general principles, and invariable laws, which increase in intensity the nearer we trace them to...
Strana 9 - ... to prayer. His volume lies beside the crucifix, partly supported by his breviary, and as he reads, he, from time to time, raises his eyes, with a pious ejaculation, or crosses himself in holy horror. And he reads, because he finds there the record of the glories to which he aspires, the sufferings of martyrs, the miracles of saints, the...
Strana 22 - ... them. But one thing I may venture to do, and that is, to remind you how vain all our efforts must be, without the active sympathy of our fellow-citizens. You, gentlemen, are making the history which we are endeavoring to record, and which, while we are trying to catch a clear view of it, hurries hy us, and mingles with the past.