Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volumen 4,Parte 1867 |
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Página 61 - The next removal must be to the study of politics ; to know the beginning, end, and reasons of political societies ; that they may not, in a dangerous fit of the commonwealth, be such poor, shaken, uncertain reeds, of such a tottering conscience, as many of our great counsellors have lately shewn themselves, but steadfast pillars of the state.
Página 60 - No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself, and were by privilege above all the creatures, born to command and not to obey : and that they lived so.
Página 61 - 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 her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 96 - If two sides and the included angle of one triangle are equal respectively to two sides and the included angle of another triangle, then the triangles are congruent.
Página 136 - York, to be paid by the Treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, to the Treasurer of...
Página 61 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 39 - INTENSE study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Página 86 - Pealed her loud drum, and twanged her trumpet horn ; Tumultuous Horror brooded o'er her van, Presaging wrath to Poland — and to man ! Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed, Wide o'er the fields, a waste of ruin laid, — Oh ! Heaven...
Página 75 - ... source; that the advocate who would convince the technical judge, or dazzle and confuse the jury, speaks Latin ; while he who would touch the better sensibilities of his audience, or rouse the multitude to vigorous action, chooses his words from the native speech of our ancient fatherland...
Página 86 - Hope, thy sister, ceased with thce to smile, When leagued Oppression poured to Northern wars Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars, Waved her dread standard to the breeze of morn, Pealed her loud drum, and twanged her trumpet horn • Tumultuous horror brooded o'er her van, Presaging wrath to Poland — and to man ! Warsaw's last champion from her heights surveyed Wide o'er the fields a waste of ruin laid...