New York During the Last Half Century: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Fifty-third Anniversary of the New York Historical Society, and of the Dedication of Their New Edifice, (November 17, 1857.)J. F. Trow, printer, 1857 - 232 halaman |
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Halaman 27 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Halaman 56 - ... their city. I must plead, moreover, that these medical anecdotes are connected with the materials I derived from Judge Benson himself. They in part illustrate his minute recognition of events and his tenacious recollection. * * * The universal praise which Dr. Mitchell enjoyed in almost every part of globe where science is cultivated, during a long life, is demonstrative that his merits were of a high order. A discourse might be delivered on the variety and extent of his services in the cause...
Halaman 9 - To discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general, and of this State in particular.
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Halaman 97 - You can and you can't, You will and you won't ; You'll be damned if you do, And you'll be damned if you don't.
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Halaman 121 - York for the education of such poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by, any religious society...
Halaman 92 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.