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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, chapter 2 (search)
prayer-meetings. They are certainly evangelizing the chaplain, who was rather a heretic at the beginning; at least, this is his own admission. We have recruits on their way from St. Augustine, where the negroes are chiefly Roman Catholics; and it will be interesting to see how their type of character combines with that elder creed. It is time for rest; and I have just looked out into the night, where the eternal stars shut down, in concave protection, over the yet glimmering camp, and Orion hangs above my tent-door, giving to me the sense of strength .and assurance which these simple children obtain from their Moses and the Prophets. Yet external Nature does its share in their training; witness that most poetic of all their songs, which always reminds me of the Lyke-Wake Dirge in the Scottish Border Minstrelsy, -- I know moon-rise, I know star-rise; Lay dis body down. I walk in de moonlight, I walk in de starlight, To lay dis body down. I'll walk in de graveyard, I'll wa
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 84 (search)
n can lay down its arms to Government — Government cannot surrender to rebellion. Give up the Union! this fair and fertile plain to batten on that moor. Divide the Atlantic, so that its tides shall beat in sections, that some spurious Neptune may rule an ocean of his own! Draw a line upon the sun's disc, that it may cast its beams upon earth in divisions! Let the moon, like Bottom in the play, show but half its face! Separate the constellation of the Pleiades, and sunder the bands of Orion I but retain the Union! Give up the Union, with its glorious flag, its Stars and Stripes, full of proud and pleasing and honorable recollections, for the spurious invention with no antecedents, but the history of a violated Constitution and of lawless ambition! No! let us stand by the emblem of our fathers, Flag of the free hearts, hope, and home, By angel hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in Heaven. Ask the Christian to exchange
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 219 (search)
62. Per Tenebras Lumina. by Mrs. Whitney. I know how, through the golden hours, When summer sunlight floods the deep, The fairest stars of all the heaven Climb up, unseen, the effulgent steep. Orion girds him with a flame; And king-like, from the eastward seas, Comes Aldebaran, with his train Of Hyades and Pleiades. In far meridian pride, the Twins Build, side by side, their luminous thrones; And Sirius and Procyon pour A splendor that the day disowns. And stately Leo, undismayed, With fiery footstep tracks the Sun, To plunge adown the western blaze, Sublimely lost in glories won. I know, if I were called to keep Pale morning watch with grief and pain, Mine eyes should see their gathering might Rise grandly through the gloom again. And when the winter solstice holds In his diminished path the sun-- When hope, and growth, and joy are o'er, And all our harvesting is done-- When, stricken like our mortal life, Darkened and chill, the year lays down The summer beauty that she wore, Her
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
egraphS. Lapham'sC. TurnerW. & N. Appleton and othersBoston391.40 61 BrigBocca TigrisSprague & James'sSprague & JamesJoseph LeeBoston180 621817ShipFalcon First ship ever built in town without a daily allowance of ardent spirit.T. Magoun'sT. MagounW. Lewis & T. MagounBoston & Medford273 63 BrigAdriaticT. Magoun'sT. MagounL. Cunningham & Co.Boston145.52 64 Sch.AntSprague & James'sSprague & JamesJacob AmmiBoston40 65 BrigLascarSprague & James'sSprague & JamesJoseph LeeBoston207 66 SloopOrionGeorge Fuller'sGeorge FullerE. CaryBoston100 671818ShipJavaT. Magoun'sT. MagounBenjamin RichBoston295.13 68 BrigArabT. Magoun'sT. MagounJ. Blake & T. MagounBoston & Medford225.62 69 ShipMercuryT. Magoun'sT. MagounNorwood & NicholsBoston304.66 70 BrigJonesT. Magoun'sT. MagounGeo. G. Jones & T. MagounBoston & Medford271.86 71 BrigGeorgeGeorge Fuller'sGeorge FullerJohn PrattBoston260 72 BrigArcherSprague & James'sSprague & JamesJoseph LeeBoston261 73 BrigPalmerSprague & James'sSprague
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Letter. (search)
t and suffer the allotments of humanity, there may not be on earth one rational being who does not cheerfully acknowledge the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. To you, we must seem among the ancients; and you may wonder how we looked, felt, and acted. The laws of Nature do not change and your organs will obey them as do ours. You look at the light blue of the sky, or the dark blue of the ocean ; at the green grass of summer, or the yellow leaf of autumn; at the brightness of Orion, or the mountains of the moon; at the changing hues of sunset, or the bursting splendors of the aurora; on the innocent gambols of a child, or the sweet smile of a parent; on the deep sorrow of misfortune, or the marble face of death. You look at these; and, let us tell you, they all appeared to us exactly as they do to you. In the woods, you hear their feathered minstrelsy; and, in the bower, the advertising cricket. At Niagara, you hear the heavy tones of its pouring; and, on the rock
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clark, Alvan 1804- (search)
ton. He was over forty years of age before he became practically interested in telescopemaking. Owing to the extraordinary acuteness of his vision, his touch, and his unlimited patience, he was specially skilful in grinding lenses of enormous size. Just before the Civil War he produced object-glasses equal, if not superior, to any ever made. One, 18 inches in diameter, then the largest ever made, went to Chicago. It revealed twenty stars, hitherto unseen by mortal eyes, in the nebula of Orion. With his sons, Mr. Clark established a manufactory of telescopes at Cambridge. They have produced some of extraordinary power. In 1883 they completed a telescope for the Russian government which had a clear aperture of 30 inches and a magnifying power of 2,000 diameters. It was the largest in the world, for which they were paid $33,000. At the time of his death, in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 19, 1887, Mr. Clark was engaged in making a telescope for the Lick Observatory, California, having
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
nditions of the construction, and immediately completed a telescope at Padua for his own use. He directed it first to the mountains of the moon, and showed the method of measuring their hights; attributing, like Leonardo da Vinci and Mostlin, the ashy-colored light of the moon to the light of the sun reflected back upon her from the earth. He examined with small magnifying powers the group of the Pleiades, the cluster of stars in Cancer, the Milky Way, and the group of stars in the head of Orion. Then followed in quick succession the great discoveries of the four satellites of Jupiter, the two handles of Saturn, — or his surrounding ring imperfectly seen, so that its true character was not at first recognized, — the solar spots, and the crescent form of Venus. As early as November, 1610, Galileo wrote to Kepler that Saturn consists of three heavenly bodies in contact with each other. In this observation there was the germ of the discovery of Saturn's ring. Hevelius described,
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
Nature. Another help, perhaps stronger than than either of the two, is domestic love .... A Southern gentleman, some time since, wrote to me from New Orleans, postage double and unpaid, inviting me to that city, promising me a warm reception, and lodgings in the calaboose, with as much nigger company as you desire. The above extract from the letter written by the Southerner was one of many of the same kind she received, because of her devotion to the cause of abolition. He wrote according to the light that was in him. He did not know that the combined police of the world could not imprison me. In spite of bolts and bars, I should have been off, like a witch at midnight holding fair discourse with Orion, and listening to the plaintive song of Pleiades mourning for the earth-dimmed glory of their fallen sister. How did he know, in his moral midnight, that choosing to cast our lot with the lowliest of earth was the very way to enter into companionship with the highest in heaven?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
und them. My friend of later years, David Wasson, used to say that his health was ruined for life by two struggles: first by the way in which he got into the church during a revival, and then by the way he got out of it as a reformer. This I escaped, and came out in the end with the radical element so much stronger than the sacerdotal, that I took for the title of my address at the graduating exercises The clergy and reform. I remember that I had just been reading Horne's farthing epic of Orion, and had an ambitious sentence in my address, comparing the spirit of the age to that fabled being, first blinded, and then fixing his sightless eyes upon the sun that they might be set free once more. Probably it was crude enough, but Theodore Parker liked it, and so I felt as did the brave Xanthus, described by Landor, who only remembered that in the heat of the battle Pericles smiled on him. I was asked to preach as a candidate before the First Religious Society at Newburyport, a church
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A letter to a young contributor. (search)
e, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. It was said of Haydon, the English artist, that, if he had taken half the pains to paint great pictures that he took to persuade the public he had painted them, his fame would have been secure. Like his was the career of poor Home, who wrote the farthing epic of Orion with one grand line in it, and a prose work (without any), on The False Medium excluding Men of Genius from the Public. He spent years in ineffectually trying to repeal the exclusion in his own case, and has since manfully gone to the grazing regions in Australia, hoping there at least to find the sheep and the goats better discriminated. Do not emulate these tragedies. Remember how many great writers have created the taste by which they were enjoyed, and do not be in a hurry. Toughen y
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