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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
s, that have dignified former generations of men, will be renewed as long as the human heart shall throb. The visions of Plato are but revived in the dreams of Sir Thomas More. A spiritual unity binds together every member of the human family; andred the strongest protest against Chap XVI.} the forms of a hierarchy. It was the principle for which Socrates died and Plato suffered; and now that Fox went forth to proclaim it among the people, he was every where resisted with angry vehemence, and guide of Socrates. Above all, the Christian Quaker delighted Penn, i. 261; III. 619. in the divinely contemplative Plato, the famous doctor of gentile theology, and recognized the unity of the Inner Light with the divine principle which dweltd punishments beyond the grave, it is certainly right to eat and drink, and enjoy what we delight in; Ibid. Penn, like Plato and Fenelon, maintained the doctrine so terrible to despots, that God is to be loved for his own sake, and virtue to be p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Q. (search)
Q. Quakerism, II. 326. A plebeian sect, 330. A universal religion, 336. Inner Light, 337. Its method that of Descartes, 338. Repels superstition, 340. Is primitive Christianity, 343. Agrees with Plato, 344. Its rule of conduct 344. No hireling ministry, 348. An absolute democracy, 352. Quakers persecuted in Massachusetts, I. 451. In North Carolina, II. 153. In Virginia, 201. In Maryland, 237. In New Jersey, 357. Their legislation, 359. In Pennsylvania, 389. Quebec founded, I. 28. Capitulates to the English, 334. A college and hospital built, III. 126. A New England fleet before it, 185. Threatened, 222.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
province, and most of all in Boston, was earnestly inquiring into the active powers of man, to deduce from them the right to uncontrolled inquiry, as the only security against religious and civil bondage. Of that cause the champion was Jonathan Mayhew, offspring of purest ancestors, nurtured by the ocean's-side, sanctified from childhood, a pupil of New England's Cambridge. Instructed in youth, thus he spoke of himself, in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero, and others among the ancients, and such as Sidney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, I liked them; and having learned from the Holy Scriptures, that wise, brave, and virtuous men were always friends to liberty, that God gave the Israelites a king in his anger, because they had not sense and virtue enough to like a free common wealth, and that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, this made me conclude that freedom is a great blessing. Serm
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 21: (search)
natural right, and expressing the true sentiments of New England. My friends: Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. The people can understand and feel the difference between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice. To the sense of this difference the friends of mankind appeal. That all men by nature are equal; that kings have but a delegated authority which the people may resume, are the revolution principles of 1688, are the principles of Aristotle and Plato, of Livy and Cicero, of Sydney, Harrington, and Locke, of nature Chap. XXI.} 1775. Feb. and eternal reason. The people are in their nature so gentle, that there never was a government in which thousands of mistakes were not overlooked. Not ingratitude to their rulers, but much love is their constant fault. Popular leaders never could for any length of time persuade a large people that they were wronged, unless they really were so. They have acted on the defensive from first to last; a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
vius, III. 263, et seq., VII. 312, et seq., 504, et seq. ruling in all things and never ruled; judging all things and never judged. In Greece, as may be read in Plato's Republic, mendicant diviners went to rich men's doors, persuading them that they have received from the gods power to absolve a man himself or his forefathers fri\ a)dikhma/twn . . . ei)os\ me\n e)/ti zw=sin, ei)si\ de\ kai\ teleuth\sasin, . . . ai= tw=n e)kei= kakw=n a)polu/ousin h(ma=s mn qu/sanras de\ deina\ perime/nei. Plato, Republic, book II. ch. VII. e)kei= is not adequately rendered by hell. Jowett's Plato, II. 186. The method practised on a small scale by vagabond prophets in Atnces? where its one incomparable king? In the north-east of Germany the man who, alone of Germans, can with Leibnitz take a place among the wise by the side of Plato and Aristotle, reformed philosophy as Luther had reformed the church, on the principle of the self-activity of the individual mind. As Luther owned neither pope n
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., chapter 1 (search)
on these shores brought with them the meeting-house and the school-house, and that these were the corner-stones on which they built. In a certain sense this is true. They brought the meeting-house to be sure, and they gave neither sleep to their eyes nor slumber to their eyelids till they had erected a house wherein to worship God; but the schoolhouse had to wait. The children's day had not then dawned, only the first faint streaks of light were visible above the eastern horizon. Neither Plato in his perfect republic nor Sir Thomas More in his ideal state had ever dreamed of such a thing as the American common school, where every child, the poorest as well as the richest, girl as well as boy, can claim, not as a charity, but as a right, the possession of the keys of all knowledge; and for the support of which a first mortgage is held on every cent of the accumulations of every childless millionaire. The law of 1642, while recognizing to the full parental responsibility, suggest
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., chapter 9 (search)
cquaintance with the Greek and Roman classics, they possessed all the charm of novelty for him in his more advanced age. In the latter years of his life he read the Greek historians, orators, and tragedians with the liveliest pleasure. As the hour immediately succeeding breakfast was always devoted by him to these studies, it was in his power, during a succession of years, to read all the most distinguished Greek and Roman authors—the whole of Plutarch's writings, and many of the volumes of Plato, while the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides received his delighted attention: and to these noble sources he was probably much indebted for the continued growth of his mind, as well as for the freshness and accuracy which were thought by many to distinguish his compositions. His habits of study differed from those of many clergymen. His preparation for the ensuing Sunday usually commenced early in the week, often on Monday, unless there were sick persons to be visited. His evenings we
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)
rough. From all that fate has brought to me I strive to learn humility; And trust in Him who rules above Whose universal law is love. Thus only can I kindly view The world that I am passing through. When I approach the setting sun And feel my journey well-nigh done, May earth be veiled in genial light And her last smile to me seem bright. Help me till then to kindly view The world that I am passing through. In 1836 Mrs. Child published Philothea, a Greek romance in the time of Phidias, Plato, Anaxagoras, Pericles, Alcibiades, and Aspasia. It was pronounced the crowning achievement of her intellectual efforts, and was received with something of the enthusiasm that had greeted her early novels. Everybody read it, every library contained a copy. It is one of the pathetic reverses of the whirligig of time, that these same copies are now dusty and unread, completely out of favor with modern sensational taste. The classical allusions in which it abounds are carefully explained in
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Slavery in Medford. (search)
master's name is given in many cases, these records also throw light on the question of slave-holders in Medford. About 40 deaths are recorded between 1745 and 1780. It is rather curious that three of Colonel Royall's slaves died within a year, at the outbreak of the Revolution. Perhaps they were heartbroken at his departure. A few entries are given here by way of illustration: Peter, Son of Worcester & Flora, Negroes of Rev. Mr. Turell and Stephen Hall, Esq., Dyed Jan. 9, 1762. Plato, a Negro Servant of Hon. Isaac Royall Esq., drowned June 8, 1768. London, A Negro Man of the Widow Mary Bradshaw's Died Oct. 15, 1760. Caesar, Negro Servant of Ebenezar Brooks of Medford and Zipporah negro Servant of Nathl Brown of Charlestown, married June 23, 1757. As would be inferred, the number of slave owners was not large, and they were the leading men of the town: the Halls, Brookses and Willises, Dr. Simon Tufts, Rev. Mr. Turrell, and, above all, Col. Isaac Royall. This f
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Susanna Rowson. (search)
sighed and wept, sighed and wept, and sighed again. Her biographer, Mr. Nason, in rather flowery language thus refers to it: It has stolen its way alike into the study of the divine, and into the workshop of the mechanic; into the parlor of the accomplished lady and the bed chamber of her waiting maid; into the log hut on the extreme border of modern civilization, and into the forecastle of the whale ship on the lonely ocean. It has been read by the gray-bearded professor after his divine Plato; by the traveller waiting for the next conveyance at the village inn; by the school girl stealthfully in her seat at school. A great, warm, loving heart guided the fingers which portrayed the picture, and that is power; and ply the rules of rhetoric as we may, the people feel the power, and they acknowledge it. Entering into an engagement with J. B. Williamson, manager of the Federal Street Theatre, the Rowson family came to Boston in 1796. One of the parts taken by Mrs. Rowson was Lady
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