An Eulogium on Stephen Elliott1830 - 46 pagine |
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Pagina 22 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire...
Pagina 46 - He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best: there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.
Pagina 25 - ... view an organization so wonderful, so varied, so complex — an adaptation of means to ends so simple, so diversified, so extensive, so perfect, that the wisdom of man shrinks abashed at the comparison. Nor is it to present existence that our observations are confined. The mind may thus be enabled to retrace the march of ages — to examine of the earth the revolutions that have formed and deranged its structure — of its inhabitants, the creation, the dissolution, the continual reproduction...
Pagina 5 - Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Pagina 25 - Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty ! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
Pagina 21 - ... prejudice. In a time of ignorance they have committed even the greatest evils without the least scruple ; but in an enlightened age they even tremble while conferring the greatest blessings. They perceive the ancient abuses ; they see how they must be reformed ; but they are sensible also of the abuses of a reformation. They let the evil continue, if they fear a worse ; they are content with a lesser good, if they doubt of a greater. They examine into the parts, to judge of them in connection;...
Pagina 21 - ... to be born with a genius capable of penetrating the entire constitution of a state. It is not a matter of indifference that the minds of the people be enlightened. The prejudices of magistrates have arisen from national prejudice. In a time of ignorance they have committed even the greatest evils without the least scruple; but in an enlightened age they even tremble while conferring the greatest blessings. They perceive the ancient abuses ; they see how they must be reformed ; but they are sensible...
Pagina 45 - ... bright eye of Hesper or the morn, In nature's fairest forms, — is aught so fair As virtuous friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Pagina 25 - The mind may thus be enabled to retrace the march of ages — to examine of the earth the revolutions that have formed and deranged its structure — of its inhabitants, the creation, the dissolution, the continual reproduction — to admire that harmony which, while it has taught each being instinctively to pursue the primary objects of its creation, has rendered them all subservient to secondary purposes.
Pagina 18 - It has been already stated that it has saved the community from the immense losses resulting from a high and fluctuating state of the exchanges. It now remains to show its effect in equalizing the currency. In this respect it has been productive of results more salutary than were anticipated by the most sanguine advocates of the policy of establishing the bank. It has actually furnished a circulating medium more uniform than specie.