An Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Bangor Lyceum: Nov. 15th, 1836 |
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... influence in our state . Let riches be at a par , and education will grow in price , and the state will flourish all the better . I know of no other way in which this can be effected , but through the efforts and example of the rich ...
... influence in our state . Let riches be at a par , and education will grow in price , and the state will flourish all the better . I know of no other way in which this can be effected , but through the efforts and example of the rich ...
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... influence un- friendly to intellectual culture . The zeal for ap- plication is apt to interfere with the zeal for pro- gress . There is ground for apprehension , that , in our eagerness to extract a hasty profit from what has already ...
... influence un- friendly to intellectual culture . The zeal for ap- plication is apt to interfere with the zeal for pro- gress . There is ground for apprehension , that , in our eagerness to extract a hasty profit from what has already ...
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... influence , all that we see or know of them is their law , whose highest mani- festation is the mechanism of the heavenly motions . A complete theory of nature would be that in which all nature resolves itself into intelligence . " t To ...
... influence , all that we see or know of them is their law , whose highest mani- festation is the mechanism of the heavenly motions . A complete theory of nature would be that in which all nature resolves itself into intelligence . " t To ...
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... influences which regulate our daily actions and pursuits . It may be regarded as a sort of secular religion , bear- ing the same relation to our worldly affairs , that the love of the good does to our moral duties . A sense of the ...
... influences which regulate our daily actions and pursuits . It may be regarded as a sort of secular religion , bear- ing the same relation to our worldly affairs , that the love of the good does to our moral duties . A sense of the ...
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... influence of both on the mind , and observe how a lively sense of the beautiful , in nature and art , softens the character , how it calms the passions , and soothes affliction , and persuades content , and reconciles us to all that is ...
... influence of both on the mind , and observe how a lively sense of the beautiful , in nature and art , softens the character , how it calms the passions , and soothes affliction , and persuades content , and reconciles us to all that is ...
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Ameri American apparent place apply Astronomy attained BANGOR LYCEUM beautiful benefit cause of intellectual centre characterize our nation classes common comparative covetousness CYRUS HAMLIN daily democracy Demosthenes difference dignity disci discovery edge efforts enabled equal favorable genius GENTLEMEN HARVARD UNIVERSITY heavenly motions heavens highest human idea important improve influence inordinate love institutions instruction intellectual culture intellectual nature intellectual pursuits INTRODUCTORY LECTURE DELIVERED knowl knowledge of facts labor laws learning less light longitude love of gain love of wealth mankind means mechanical ment mental culture mind ob't object observation obstacle omen optics P. W. CHANDLER phenomena philosopher pline possesses practical tendency principles prized reduces the facts referring one fact refraction regarded rich scholar scientific production self-taught sentiment Sir Humphrey Davy society spirit things thought tinction tion toil true and apparent unfold universe vanish W. H. FOSTER zeal zealous cultivation
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Page 29 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and...
Page 14 - It is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor: we must all toil, or steal (howsoever we name our stealing), which is worse; no faithful workman finds his task a pastime. The poor is hungry and a-thirst; but for him also there is food and drink: he is heavy-laden and weary; but for him also the Heavens send Sleep, and of the deepest; in his smoky cribs, a clear dewy heaven of Rest envelops him, and fitful glitterings of cloud-skirted Dreams.
Page 15 - And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others...
Page 29 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt, knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action.
Page 21 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 21 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland...
Page 14 - In his smoky cribs, a clear dewy heaven of rest envelops him, and fitful glitterings of cloud-skirted dreams. But what I do mourn over is that the lamp of his soul should go out ; that no ray of heavenly or even of earthly knowledge should visit him ; but only in the haggard darkness, like two spectres, Fear and Indignation.
Page 21 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 21 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery. Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice...
Page 21 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles.