Public Documents of Massachusetts, المجلدات 18-28

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Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1877
 

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الصفحة 154 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
الصفحة 139 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
الصفحة 26 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
الصفحة 151 - There she was, before me ; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an immortal soul might be awakened.
الصفحة 154 - It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought : Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright...
الصفحة 133 - He gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb, strength and vigour to lame and withered limbs.
الصفحة 144 - Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again.
الصفحة 43 - The records of this (McLean) Asylum," says he, in his report for the year 1840, "justify the declaration that all cases, certainly recent, — that is, whose origin does not, either directly or obscurely, run back more than a year, — recover under a fair trial. This is the general law ; the occasional instances to the contrary are the exception.
الصفحة 165 - That a copy of these proceedings be transmitted to the family of the deceased.
الصفحة 151 - If it were possible for a Human being to come into the world with a Brain perfectly prepared to be the instrument of Psychical operations, but with all the inlets to Sense-impressions closed, we have every reason to believe that the Mind would remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth.

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