New England Magazine (and Bay State Monthly), Volume 4New England Magazine Company, 1886 |
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... position he held four years . During his brilliant career of ten years , in which he was the executive head of the college , men were educated and sent out into all the professions , who , for learning , skill , and success in life ...
... position he held four years . During his brilliant career of ten years , in which he was the executive head of the college , men were educated and sent out into all the professions , who , for learning , skill , and success in life ...
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... position , was afterward enlarged into a painting , and subsequently engraved ; and Col. William Tappan , landlord of the tavern where our friends were to dine . The meeting between this last gentleman and Mr. Webster was one of unusual ...
... position , was afterward enlarged into a painting , and subsequently engraved ; and Col. William Tappan , landlord of the tavern where our friends were to dine . The meeting between this last gentleman and Mr. Webster was one of unusual ...
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... position . He was then elected a member of the Ohio House of Representa- tives for the sessions of 1849 and 1850. Although frequently urged to allow the use of his name as a candidate for Congress , and other positions , he subsequently ...
... position . He was then elected a member of the Ohio House of Representa- tives for the sessions of 1849 and 1850. Although frequently urged to allow the use of his name as a candidate for Congress , and other positions , he subsequently ...
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... position in life to which her husband's distinguished abilities have exalted her . Of their living children all save one- Miss Mary F. Waite , highly esteemed because of her personal quali- ties and her deep interest in philanthropic ...
... position in life to which her husband's distinguished abilities have exalted her . Of their living children all save one- Miss Mary F. Waite , highly esteemed because of her personal quali- ties and her deep interest in philanthropic ...
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... position of marshal of the Massachusetts colony , a post which he seems to have filled to the satisfaction of the colonists for many years , and in which he was succeeded , as will be seen , by his son Return . In the same year ( 1654 ) ...
... position of marshal of the Massachusetts colony , a post which he seems to have filled to the satisfaction of the colonists for many years , and in which he was succeeded , as will be seen , by his son Return . In the same year ( 1654 ) ...
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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
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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.