New England Magazine (and Bay State Monthly), Volume 4New England Magazine Company, 1886 |
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... held in Newport , Wednesday , September 3 , he was formally elected , in the language of the records , " President of the College , Professor of Languages and other branches of learning , with full power to act in these capacities at ...
... held in Newport , Wednesday , September 3 , he was formally elected , in the language of the records , " President of the College , Professor of Languages and other branches of learning , with full power to act in these capacities at ...
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... held in Warren , February 7 , 1770. " The people of Newport had raised , " says Manning , in his account of this meeting , " four thousand pounds , lawful money , taking in their unconditional subscription . But Providence presented ...
... held in Warren , February 7 , 1770. " The people of Newport had raised , " says Manning , in his account of this meeting , " four thousand pounds , lawful money , taking in their unconditional subscription . But Providence presented ...
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... held the temporary appointment of Professor of Divinity . The career of this remarkable man indicates a high order of genius . At the early age of fifteen he had entered the Institution as a pupil , graduating in 1787 with the highest ...
... held the temporary appointment of Professor of Divinity . The career of this remarkable man indicates a high order of genius . At the early age of fifteen he had entered the Institution as a pupil , graduating in 1787 with the highest ...
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... held in grateful remembrance . TO A FRIEND , On his Departure for a Tour round the World . BY EDGAR FAWCETT . IN losing thee , dear friend , I seem to fare Forth from the lintel of some chamber bright , Whose lamps in rosy sorcery lend ...
... held in grateful remembrance . TO A FRIEND , On his Departure for a Tour round the World . BY EDGAR FAWCETT . IN losing thee , dear friend , I seem to fare Forth from the lintel of some chamber bright , Whose lamps in rosy sorcery lend ...
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... held its brief sway ; farther on , Ten - Pound Island with its light - house ; then the village of Gloucester , the old fort , the still older wind - mill , both prominent objects ; and in the distance the twin lighthouses of Thatcher's ...
... held its brief sway ; farther on , Ten - Pound Island with its light - house ; then the village of Gloucester , the old fort , the still older wind - mill , both prominent objects ; and in the distance the twin lighthouses of Thatcher's ...
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Page 358 - Yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep, — the dead reign there alone.
Page 464 - Pack clouds away, and welcome day; With night we banish sorrow; Sweet airs, blow soft; mount, larks, aloft, To give my love good-morrow. Wings from the wind to please her mind, Notes from the lark I'll borrow; Bird,
Page 319 - of Briton, and that the privileges of his people are dearer to him than the most valuable prerogatives of his crown; and it is in opposition to a kind of power, the exercise of which in former periods of English history cost one king his head, and another his
Page 464 - blow soft; mount, larks, aloft, To give my love good-morrow. Wings from the wind to please her mind, Notes from the lark I'll borrow; Bird, plume thy wing, nightingale, sing, To give my love good.morrow!
Page 319 - I renounced that office, and I argue this cause from the same principle, and I argue it with the greater pleasure as it is in favor of British liberty at a time when we hear the greatest monarch upon earth declaring from his throne that he glories in the
Page 554 - I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Page 316 - to defend my right of giving or refusing the other shilling ; and, after all, if I cannot defend that right, I can retire cheerfully with my little family into the boundless woods of America, which are sure to afford freedom and subsistence to any man who can bait a hook or pull a trigger.
Page 226 - Without God in the world.” Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation. A mind like Mr. Mason's, active, thoughtful, penetrating,
Page 316 - that you, in behalf of this colony, dissent from and utterly reject any proposition, should such be made, that may cause or lead to a separation from our mother country, or a change of the form of this government.
Page 319 - independence was then and there born. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against the “writs of assistance.