Centennial Fourth of July Oration: Delivered at Chester, PennaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1876 - 64 páginas |
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... PHILADELPHIA , ETC. , ETC. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation , rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle , mewing her mighty youth and kindling ...
... PHILADELPHIA , ETC. , ETC. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation , rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle , mewing her mighty youth and kindling ...
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... Philadelphia , that city that is at this moment the micro- cosm , the epitome of the world , where the magic potency of the load - stone of liberty has drawn together the productions of man and nature from every clime beneath the sun ...
... Philadelphia , that city that is at this moment the micro- cosm , the epitome of the world , where the magic potency of the load - stone of liberty has drawn together the productions of man and nature from every clime beneath the sun ...
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... Philadelphia , published the first half - volume of Encyclopædia Britannica , to be completed in 15 volumes , for seventy dollars . The subscribers were 246 , and but 12 CENTENNIAL FOURTH OF JULY ORATION . National Statistics from 1790 ...
... Philadelphia , published the first half - volume of Encyclopædia Britannica , to be completed in 15 volumes , for seventy dollars . The subscribers were 246 , and but 12 CENTENNIAL FOURTH OF JULY ORATION . National Statistics from 1790 ...
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... Philadelphia . The power first used in coining was by four or five horses ; in 1818 by a steam - engine . First turnpike road in United States , from Philadelphia to Lancaster , -sixty - two miles , -was commenced this year and finished ...
... Philadelphia . The power first used in coining was by four or five horses ; in 1818 by a steam - engine . First turnpike road in United States , from Philadelphia to Lancaster , -sixty - two miles , -was commenced this year and finished ...
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... Philadelphia communication with other cities was as follows : With New York by four daily stages , and a line of packet - boats to Burlington or Bordentown , thence by stage to Amboy , and by packet to New York . With Baltimore by daily ...
... Philadelphia communication with other cities was as follows : With New York by four daily stages , and a line of packet - boats to Burlington or Bordentown , thence by stage to Amboy , and by packet to New York . With Baltimore by daily ...
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Página 60 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 47 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Página 60 - For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.
Página 61 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land: What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
Página 60 - ... of the day ; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles ; it has accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth...
Página 52 - A thousand years scarce serve to form a state ; An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
Página 49 - For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Página 51 - Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves, Who all the sacred mysteries of heaven To their own vile advantages shall turn, Of lucre and ambition; and the truth With superstitions and traditions taint, Left only in those written records pure, Though not but by the Spirit understood.
Página 40 - Give a man nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert; give a man entire possession of a rock, and he will turn it into a garden...