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... influence on the affairs of men , in all their relations , of the invention of the little
machine which I hold in my hands ; and the other modern instruments for the
measurement of time , various specimens of which are on exhibition in the halls .
... influence on the affairs of men , in all their relations , of the invention of the little
machine which I hold in my hands ; and the other modern instruments for the
measurement of time , various specimens of which are on exhibition in the halls .
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With a hall or institution of the character I have named , we should have an
illimitable fund of useful amusement and of scientific study . It would be a school
of art , of the beneficial effect of which no one can doubt . The great distance at
which ...
With a hall or institution of the character I have named , we should have an
illimitable fund of useful amusement and of scientific study . It would be a school
of art , of the beneficial effect of which no one can doubt . The great distance at
which ...
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THE Seventeenth Triennial Festival of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic
Association was celebrated at Faneuil Hall , on Wednesday evening , October 14
, 1857. The hall was very appropriately and beautifully decorated by Messrs .
THE Seventeenth Triennial Festival of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic
Association was celebrated at Faneuil Hall , on Wednesday evening , October 14
, 1857. The hall was very appropriately and beautifully decorated by Messrs .
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The President read the following letter from Mr. Winthrop , who had been obliged
to leave the hall in consequence of imperative engagements :WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON , Oct. 14 , 1857 . Joseph M. Wightman , Esq . , Pres't M. C. M. A .:
My ...
The President read the following letter from Mr. Winthrop , who had been obliged
to leave the hall in consequence of imperative engagements :WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON , Oct. 14 , 1857 . Joseph M. Wightman , Esq . , Pres't M. C. M. A .:
My ...
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About five hundred members of the Association and invited guests assembled in
the new and spacious Hall of the Horticultural Society , at the conclusion of the
exercises at Tremont Temple . After a brief interchange of congratulations on the
...
About five hundred members of the Association and invited guests assembled in
the new and spacious Hall of the Horticultural Society , at the conclusion of the
exercises at Tremont Temple . After a brief interchange of congratulations on the
...
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Page 20 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 12 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 21 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 11 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race, Their ruins, since the world began, Of HIM afford no other trace Than this, — THERE LIVED A MAN ! November 4, 1805.
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Page 12 - UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the...
Page 29 - There was a little city (says he), and few men within it ; and there came a great King against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it : " 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. " Then, said I, wisdom is better than strength ; wisdom is better than weapons of war ; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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