hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 96 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. | 4 | 2 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches. You can also browse the collection for George L. Stearns or search for George L. Stearns in all documents.
Your search returned 48 results in 6 document sections:
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The War Governor. (search)
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
[31 more...]
Emerson's tribute to George L. Stearns.
Delivered in the First Parish Church of Medford on the Sunday following Major Stearns's death, April 9, 1867.
We do not know how to prize good men until they depart.
High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for fl is to replace them.
There will be other good men, but not these again.
And the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen, the neighbor, the friend, the father, and the husband, whom this assembly mour nary man, but one who had a rare magnetism for men of character, and attached some of the best and noblest to him, on very short acquaintance, by lasting ties.
Mr. Stearns made himself at once necessary to Captain Brown as one who respected his inspirations, and had the magnanimity to trust him entirely, and to arm his hands with