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... collect the materials from which the great narrative of events is , in due time , to be framed . The transactions of ... collections of Historical Societies . But these collections are not history ; they are only elements of history ...
... collect the materials from which the great narrative of events is , in due time , to be framed . The transactions of ... collections of Historical Societies . But these collections are not history ; they are only elements of history ...
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... collection of acts , occurrences , and dates . It adopts nothing that is not true ; but it does not em- brace all minor truths and all minor transactions . It is a composition , a production , which has unity of design , like a work of ...
... collection of acts , occurrences , and dates . It adopts nothing that is not true ; but it does not em- brace all minor truths and all minor transactions . It is a composition , a production , which has unity of design , like a work of ...
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... collect the materials for his history . But he made of them one whole , and laid one idea at the bot- tom , with as much epic simplicity as Homer did in the Iliad . His subject was the contest of Greece with the Persians , and the ...
... collect the materials for his history . But he made of them one whole , and laid one idea at the bot- tom , with as much epic simplicity as Homer did in the Iliad . His subject was the contest of Greece with the Persians , and the ...
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... collection of books and manuscripts on this sub- ject , and whose indefatigable industry and conscientious research , in collecting the materi- als for an American history , to which he has devoted his life , are worthy of great conside ...
... collection of books and manuscripts on this sub- ject , and whose indefatigable industry and conscientious research , in collecting the materi- als for an American history , to which he has devoted his life , are worthy of great conside ...
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... collected , and the promise or pledge proposed by the Continental Congress , of life and fortune , presented to them . " All , " as the record says , " freely signed ex- cept two . " In looking to this record , thus connected with the ...
... collected , and the promise or pledge proposed by the Continental Congress , of life and fortune , presented to them . " All , " as the record says , " freely signed ex- cept two . " In looking to this record , thus connected with the ...
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Page 29 - 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...
Page 8 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased : The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 42 - We, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risK of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.
Page 44 - When your lordships look at the papers, transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Page 29 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 46 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 44 - I must declare and avow, that, in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study, — I have read ''• Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that, for solidity of reasoning, force of ''"sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a "'" complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men, can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 47 - UNBORN ages and visions of glory crowd upon my soul, the realization of all which, however, is in the hands and good pleasure of Almighty God ; but, under his divine blessing, it will be dependent on the character and the virtues of ourselves, and of our posterity. If classical history has been found to be, is now, and shall continue to be, the concomitant5 of free instituticiis, and of popular eloquence, what a field is opening to 08 for another Herod'otus,' another Thucydides,
Page 39 - Massachusetts Bay, to the execution of the late acts of parliament; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them in their opposition.
Page 53 - All the good, whether learned or unlearned, high or low, rich or poor, feel this day that there is one treasure common to them all, and that is the fame of Washington. They all recount...