The Varieties of Human Greatness: A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch ... Delivered in the Church on Church Green, March 25, 1838Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838 - 119 pages |
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... person of violent and passionate temper , gave young Bowditch , when he was about five or six years old , a very diffi- cult sum in arithmetic to perform . His scholar went to his desk , and soon afterwards brought up his slate with the ...
... person of violent and passionate temper , gave young Bowditch , when he was about five or six years old , a very diffi- cult sum in arithmetic to perform . His scholar went to his desk , and soon afterwards brought up his slate with the ...
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... person , who was esteemed a very skilful accountant , " you have been figuring it out for me on paper ; has he got it right ? " " Yes , Madam , " said the clerk , taking his long calculation out of his pocket , " he has got it exactly ...
... person , who was esteemed a very skilful accountant , " you have been figuring it out for me on paper ; has he got it right ? " " Yes , Madam , " said the clerk , taking his long calculation out of his pocket , " he has got it exactly ...
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... person on the island , a broker , by the name of It is so good that I thought it worth translating , and now venture to ap- pend it in a note , notwithstanding its length . The Baron is relating the sensation caused at Genoa , by the ...
... person on the island , a broker , by the name of It is so good that I thought it worth translating , and now venture to ap- pend it in a note , notwithstanding its length . The Baron is relating the sensation caused at Genoa , by the ...
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... any body in this country who knew any thing about the science . " I have a question , " said he , " which I have proposed to several persons here who are reputed the most knowing , and they cannot solve it . " This Englishman was a 32.
... any body in this country who knew any thing about the science . " I have a question , " said he , " which I have proposed to several persons here who are reputed the most knowing , and they cannot solve it . " This Englishman was a 32.
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... person in whose behalf the investment was to be made , and ascertaining that it was done with his or her full and free consent , and that the individual perfectly understood the mode and conditions of the investment , before it was put ...
... person in whose behalf the investment was to be made , and ascertaining that it was done with his or her full and free consent , and that the individual perfectly understood the mode and conditions of the investment , before it was put ...
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Page 96 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 81 - GAY, guiltless pair, What seek ye from the fields of heaven ? Ye have no need of prayer, Ye have no sins to be forgiven. Why perch ye here, Where mortals to their Maker bend ? Can your pure spirits fear The God ye never could offend ? Ye never knew The crimes for which we come to weep.
Page 70 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest.
Page 75 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 17 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful...
Page 95 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit. who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Page 103 - YE golden lamps of heaven, farewell, With all your feeble light ; Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, Pale empress of the night. 2 And thou, refulgent orb of day, In brighter flames arrayed, My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere, No more demands thine aid.
Page 13 - Gott, when I gazed into these Stars, have they not looked down on me as if with pity, from their serene spaces; like Eyes glistening with heavenly tears over the little lot of man!
Page 79 - The pleasantry, perhaps, of no man of wit had so unlaboured an appearance. It seemed rather to escape from his mind than to be produced by it...
Page 96 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set...