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Page 83
... sentiments of truth and loyalty to our mother country upon the glowing altar of our national nativity , on the 4th of July , 1876 ! Let willing hearts and ready hands attest our gratitude , for the place we occupy and the name we bear ...
... sentiments of truth and loyalty to our mother country upon the glowing altar of our national nativity , on the 4th of July , 1876 ! Let willing hearts and ready hands attest our gratitude , for the place we occupy and the name we bear ...
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... sentiments , it is our first effort to attain , that the restrictions and embarrassments which are incident to their existence may be avoided . Let us , as women of our beloved state and nation , not as city , church or neigh- borhood ...
... sentiments , it is our first effort to attain , that the restrictions and embarrassments which are incident to their existence may be avoided . Let us , as women of our beloved state and nation , not as city , church or neigh- borhood ...
Page 105
... honoring the centennial anniversary of our beloved country . We cannot labor inspired by its sentiments , without being the better and the happier for it , We give liberally , and our fund of patriotic enthusiasm is CENTENNIAL RECORDS .
... honoring the centennial anniversary of our beloved country . We cannot labor inspired by its sentiments , without being the better and the happier for it , We give liberally , and our fund of patriotic enthusiasm is CENTENNIAL RECORDS .
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... sentiment was read : " THE YANKEES OUTSIDE OF NEW ENGLAND . -Transplanting improves them . " The President said there was a gentleman present who claimed to be an outsider , but as his place of nativity was so near the New England line ...
... sentiment was read : " THE YANKEES OUTSIDE OF NEW ENGLAND . -Transplanting improves them . " The President said there was a gentleman present who claimed to be an outsider , but as his place of nativity was so near the New England line ...
Page 155
... sentiment . The history of the first settlers of New York , the Dutch , particularly those who settled the Hudson and Mohawk Valley , had been very dif- ferent . Their descendants had scarcely left the boundaries of the lands taken up ...
... sentiment . The history of the first settlers of New York , the Dutch , particularly those who settled the Hudson and Mohawk Valley , had been very dif- ferent . Their descendants had scarcely left the boundaries of the lands taken up ...
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Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin (1876) Anna Bates Butler,Emma Curtiss Bascom,Katharine Fuller Brown Kerr No preview available - 2009 |
Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin (1876) Anna Bates Butler,Emma Curtiss Bascom,Katharine Fuller Brown Kerr No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 197 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest...
Page 197 - Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eyo Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless...
Page 153 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 137 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 139 - During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his longlost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore...
Page 197 - In the elder days of Art, Builders -wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house, where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.
Page 69 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 220 - West and East, And shapes and hues of Art divine ! All of beauty, all of use, That one fair planet can produce, Brought from under every star, Blown from over every main, And mixt, as life is mixt with pain, The works of peace with works of war.
Page 108 - By order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, for the State House in the City of Philadelphia, 1752.
Page 107 - Domini 1776, the birthday of the nation; and whereas it is deemed fitting that the completion of the first century of our national existence shall be commemorated by an exhibition of the natural resources of the country and their development, and of its progress in those arts which benefit mankind, in comparison with those of older nations...