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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Our fallen heroes: an address delivered by Hon. A. M. Keiley, of Richmond, on Memorial day, at Loudon park, near Baltimore, June 5, 1879. (search)
g inspiration of these, and a thousand kindred heroisms, with which the story of the world is full? Love of country — not because it is fertile, for sterile Sparta gave it more resplendent growth than teeming Egypt; not because it is powerful, for imperial Rome never gave more glorious illustration of its force than did some of the savage tribes she easily subdued; not because it is beautiful, for the flat and weary plains of Holland witnessed a devotion as glorious as ever hallowed classic Attica or lovely France; not even because it is free, for out of the depths of a long inheritance of slavery have flashed at times such fires of patriot fervor that all the world, looking on, has prayed and hoped that they might prove the dawn of Liberty. Not these considerations or attributes, not any nor all of these, gave vigorous birth and growth to such great sacrifices for fatherland. It was a sentiment, older and stronger than all the governments that are or have been — old as gray Time
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Addresses of Rev. J. K. Gutheim and Rev. Dr. Palmer, at the great meeting in New Orleans. (search)
s. It is a mistake to suppose that war is always the mere outburst of human passion. On the contrary the great wars of earth — those which have been projected upon the largest scale and protracted through the longest period, and especially occurring between members of the same race, have been the result of an antecedent conflict of opinions which seeking reconciliation in vain, appealed finally to the sword to settle the question of ascendency. Why! The thirty years war between Sparta and Attica was but the culmination of the struggle between the Doric and Ionic elements of the Grecian stock which emerged at the earliest dawn of authentic history; two nations struggled together like Jacob and Esau, even in the womb. So ancient was the feud that even the armed invasion of Persia scarcely composed it for a time, only to break forth in the war of the Peloponnesus, so fatal in its issue to the independence of both. From the outset these two were the exponents of two opposing systems o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
.....1840 Population of the State, 2,428,921......1840 Railroad completed from Boston to Albany......1841 Steam-packet President sails for Liverpool (never heard from)......March 11, 1841 First Washington temperance meeting in New York......March 24, 1841 Steamboat Erie burned on Lake Erie; 180 perish......Aug. 9, 1841 Auburn and Rochester Railroad opened......1841 Croton aqueduct finished; five years in construction; cost, $12,500,000; length, 40 1/2 miles......1842 Attica and Buffalo Railroad opened......1842 William C. Bouck, governor......1843 Morgan Lewis, prominent soldier in the two wars with Great Britain and governor of New York, born in 1754, dies at New York City......April 7, 1844 Armed resistance begun by anti-renters in Albany, Delaware, and Rensselaer counties......1844 [Tenants of the patroon refuse to pay rent.] Silas Wright, Jr., governor......Jan. 1, 1845 Steamer Swallow, Captain Squires, from New York to Albany, strikes a r
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ur disposal a perfect cyclopaedia of Assyrian science. Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1853. Offspring of clay and furnace bright, The choicest pottery clear and light, Boasts, as its birthplace, of the towers Which Neptune's and Minerva's powers From ills and dangers shield; Which beat back war's barbaric wave When Mede and Persian found a grave On Marathon's undying field. Critias; quoted by Atheneus, A. D. 220. The chronicler of the Deipnosophists goes on to say:— And indeed the pottery of Attica is deservedly praised. But Eubulus says: Cnidian pots, Sicilian platters, and Megarian jars. Perhaps no other art has done so much as the ceramic to preserve to us the appearance and habits of the peoples of the past. What with domestic, decorative, and funereal urns and lachrymatories, there are but few nations, it would seem, but have left traces to help us to some conception of their tastes and their capacities. The Metropolitan Museum of New York has a great collection, made by Gen
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 24 (search)
you say, despicable mass, he forged a thunderbolt and hurled it at what? At the proudest blood in Europe, the Spaniard, and sent him home conquered [cheers]; at the most warlike blood in Europe, the French, and put them under his feet; at the pluckiest blood in Europe, the English, and they skulked home to Jamaica. [Applause.] Now if Cromwell was a general, at least this man was a soldier. I know it was a small territory; it was not as large as the continent; but it was as large as that Attica, which, with Athens for a capital, has filled the earth with its fame for two thousand years. We measure genius by quality, not by quantity. Further,--Cromwell was only a soldier; his fame stops there. Not one line in the statute-book of Britain can be traced to Cromwell; not one step in the social life of England finds its motive power in his brain. The state he founded went down with him to his grave. But this man no sooner put his hand on the helm of state, than the ship steadied wi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
y from St. Augustine, who got it from Varro. Cecrops, building Athens, saw starting from the earth an olive-plant and a fountain, side by side. The Delphic oracle said, that this indicated a strife between Minerva and Neptune for the honor of giving a name to the city, and that the people must decide between them. Cecrops thereupon assembled the men, and the women also, who then had a right to vote; and the result was, that Minerva carried the election by a glorious majority of one. Then Attica was overflowed and laid waste: of course the citizens attributed the calamity to Neptune, and resolved to punish the women. It was therefore determined that in future they should not vote, nor should any child bear the name of its mother. Thus easily did mythology explain all troublesome inconsistencies. But it is much that it should even have recognized them, at so early an epoch, as needing explanation. When we ask for a less symbolical elucidation, it lies within our reach. At leas
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 5: at Westhaven, Vermont. (search)
emetrius, who up to that moment had borne his reverses with calmness, was cut to the heart, and overcome by mingled disgust and rage. He was not in a condition to avenge the wrong. He expostulated with the Athenians in moderate terms, and waited only to be joined by his galleys, and turned his back upon the ungrateful country. Time passed. Demetrius again became powerful. Athens was rent by factions. Availing himself of the occasion, the injured king sailed with a considerable fleet to Attica, landed his forces and invested the city, which was soon reduced to such extremity of famine that a father and son, it is related, fought for the possession of a dead mouse that happened to fall from the ceiling of the room in which they were sitting. The Athenians were compelled, at length, to open their gates to Demetrius, who marched in with his troops. He commanded all the citizens to assemble in the theatre. They obeyed. Utterly at his mercy, they expected no mercy, felt that they d
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 4 (search)
masculine and a feminine influence on the characters of the plot. Of all this nocturnal element in her nature she was very conscious, and was disposed, of course, to give it as fine names as it would carry, and to draw advantage from it. Attica, she said to a friend, is your province, Thessaly is mine: Attica produced the marble wonders of the great geniuses; but Thessaly is the land of magic. I have a great share of Typhon to the Osiris, wild rush and leap, blind force for the Attica produced the marble wonders of the great geniuses; but Thessaly is the land of magic. I have a great share of Typhon to the Osiris, wild rush and leap, blind force for the sake of force. Dante, thou didst not describe, in all thy apartments bf Inferno, this tremendous repression of an existence half unfolded; this swoon as the soul was ready to be born. Every year I live, I dislike routine more and more, though I see that society rests on that, and other falsehoods. The more I screw myself down to hours, the more I become expert at giving out thought and life in regulated rations,—the more I weary of this world, and long to move upon the wing, without pro