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Página 8 - ... made a covenant, and they are the living ark to whose keeping His law is intrusted. In the watches of the night, in solitary wildernesses, upon the lonely ocean, have they heard His awful voice. Rapturous dreams, resplendent visions, celestial revelations have overshone their souls, and so erected and exalted their spirits, that the strong ones of the earth have been as dead men beneath their feet. The Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth — Englishmen by birth — belonged to that remarkable body of...
Página 29 - Future, the end of which no man can see. May God inspire us and our rulers with the wisdom to preserve and transmit, unimpaired, those advantages secured to us by our remote position, and by the fact that we started without the weary burdens and perplexing entanglements of the Past. May no insane spirit of propagandism lead us to take part in alien contests. May we throw into the scale of struggling freedom, not the sword of physical force, but the weight of a noble example — the moral argument...
Página 31 - Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are ; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.
Página 31 - ... into the skies, to recall the life of earth, — if there be sensitive links of memory vibrating between time and eternity — may we not feel an assurance that our fathers are with us, in spirit, at this hour, and that throbs of mortal joy are mingling with the deep peace of those serene abodes ? Men of New England ! Sons of the Pilgrims ! Let not the fleet angel of this hour leave us without a blessing. If the memories of this day have softened and melted your hearts, stamp upon them, before...
Página 28 - ... heart of England when the news came of the disastrous battle of Prague. He would have painted the horror and dismay which ran through France at the assassination of Henry the Fourth. He would have traced the glorious career of Gustavus Adolphus, step by step, and lingered long upon the incidents of his last fight — how the king went into battle singing a hymn of Luther's; how the deep-voiced chorus rolled along the files of his army, and with what rage and grief the Swedes fell upon the foe...
Página 28 - But with our eyes, we can see that the humble event was the seed of far more memorable consequences than all the sieges, battles, and treaties of that momentous period. The effects of those fields of slaughter hardly lasted longer than the smoke and dust of the contending armies; but the seminal principles which were carried to America in the Mayflower, which grew in the wholesome air of obscurity and neglect, are at this moment vital forces in the movements of the world, the extent and influence...
Página 25 - But histories incomparably more authentic than Mr. Hume's (nay, spite of himself even his own history) confirm by irrefragable evidence the aphorism of ancient wisdom, that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing up of self in an object dearer than self, or in an idea more vivid...
Página 17 - ... Latin of Magna Charta. They had sat upon juries; they had seen the judicial and executive functions of a state embodied in the justice of the peace and the constable. They knew the meaning of those proud words, the Commons of England. The very oppressions which they had suffered, had been under the forms of law. They brought with them whatever was vital and progressive in the institutions of England, and nothing of that which was obsolete and unsuited to their new sphere of action and duty. They...
Página 27 - He has read their lives and their writings in a spirit as perverse as that in which they read the word of God, when they found in it a warrant for selling the wife and son of Philip into slavery. The study of history rebukes the pride of human reason, by revealing marked disproportions between particular events and the consequences to which they lead. The first forty years of the seventeenth century were fruitful in striking occurrences and remarkable men. Charles II. was born in 1630. When he had...
Página 12 - first-born of the devil," and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison his twin brothers. Another takes for his text the 8th verse of the 109th Psalm : " Let his days be few; and let another take his office.