Addresses Delivered at the Triennial Celebration ...1824 |
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... labor to get , and which we believe we shall some time or other possess . This unextinguishable desire for more , whatever we may already have , is the spring of industry ; that it is , which gives birth to invention , and imparts vigor ...
... labor to get , and which we believe we shall some time or other possess . This unextinguishable desire for more , whatever we may already have , is the spring of industry ; that it is , which gives birth to invention , and imparts vigor ...
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... labor in the various employments and professions before enumerated - whose enterprise , activity , and success , have not given them entire independence of labor , but have raised them above dependence on the kindness , caprice , or ...
... labor in the various employments and professions before enumerated - whose enterprise , activity , and success , have not given them entire independence of labor , but have raised them above dependence on the kindness , caprice , or ...
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... labor thus economized , and imparting a share of it to those engaged in some other pursuit , who give a portion of its products in exchange for food . Take another illustration in the arts employed in furnishing the clothing of man ...
... labor thus economized , and imparting a share of it to those engaged in some other pursuit , who give a portion of its products in exchange for food . Take another illustration in the arts employed in furnishing the clothing of man ...
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... labor economized by the enginery it puts in motion , performs annually the work of a million of men . In other words , the steam engine adds to the human population of Great Britain another population , one million strong . Strong it ...
... labor economized by the enginery it puts in motion , performs annually the work of a million of men . In other words , the steam engine adds to the human population of Great Britain another population , one million strong . Strong it ...
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... labor . " † - This prodigious economy and accumulation of power , effected by the mechanic arts , are occupied in supplying the wants and promoting the comfort of man . When , therefore , the ingenious artisan makes an improvement in a ...
... labor . " † - This prodigious economy and accumulation of power , effected by the mechanic arts , are occupied in supplying the wants and promoting the comfort of man . When , therefore , the ingenious artisan makes an improvement in a ...
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ADDRESS apprentices Archimedes Asso ASTOR beauty become blessings bookbinder Boston called century chanics character Charitable Mechanic Association civilization classes commerce common condition cooper Derry earth engine England exhibition Faneuil Hall feel Franklin friends genius gentlemen George George W Germania Band give glory hall hands happiness heart heaven HENRY N honor housewright human hundred improvement industry influence institutions intellectual intelligence interest invention John Joseph JOSEPH LEWIS labor land LENOX AND TILDEN living machinery mankind manufactures Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic mechanic arts ment mighty mind moral Nathaniel E nation nature never noble occasion operation OSMYN BREWSTER patriotism Paul Revere peace present President principles progress prosperity sailmaker Samuel sentiment skill social society spirit steam success thing thought thousand TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tion toil trade TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL true vote wealth whole William wonderful
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Page 22 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 16 - 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 23 - 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 13 - 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.
Page 10 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a* that. What though on hamely fare we dine. Wear hoddin grey, an' a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a
Page 4 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Page 16 - 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 31 - 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.
Page 16 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 6 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.