AddressesJoseph Griffin, printer, 1820 - 176 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 22
Page iii
... application was accordingly made to the President by the graduates of the institution , through the medium of a committee appointed by them at the commence- ment in 1818 . In the course of Providence it occurred that this was the last ...
... application was accordingly made to the President by the graduates of the institution , through the medium of a committee appointed by them at the commence- ment in 1818 . In the course of Providence it occurred that this was the last ...
Page iv
... application is inserted , as an introduction to his answer . With a view to render the publication an useful manual for the future students of the institution , as well as an interesting me- morial to those who have enjoyed its benefits ...
... application is inserted , as an introduction to his answer . With a view to render the publication an useful manual for the future students of the institution , as well as an interesting me- morial to those who have enjoyed its benefits ...
Page v
... prosperity under its late lamented President- and who anticipate its advancement from the auspicious selec- tion of his successor . Brunswick , May 5 , 1820 . CONTENTS . ***** COPIES OF THE APPLICATION AND ANSWER SKETCH ADVERTISEMENT .
... prosperity under its late lamented President- and who anticipate its advancement from the auspicious selec- tion of his successor . Brunswick , May 5 , 1820 . CONTENTS . ***** COPIES OF THE APPLICATION AND ANSWER SKETCH ADVERTISEMENT .
Page vii
Jesse Appleton. CONTENTS . ***** COPIES OF THE APPLICATION AND ANSWER SKETCH OF THE CHARACTER OF PRESIDENT APPLETON INAUGURAL ADDRESS ANNUAL ADDRESSES . COMMENCEMENT 1808 . Page . ix XV 3-16 CLASSICAL LITERATURE . · 17-23 COMMENCEMENT ...
Jesse Appleton. CONTENTS . ***** COPIES OF THE APPLICATION AND ANSWER SKETCH OF THE CHARACTER OF PRESIDENT APPLETON INAUGURAL ADDRESS ANNUAL ADDRESSES . COMMENCEMENT 1808 . Page . ix XV 3-16 CLASSICAL LITERATURE . · 17-23 COMMENCEMENT ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance acquire action ADDRESS application approbation asso atheism attention benevolence BOWDOIN COLLEGE Brunswick christianity circumstances civil COMMENCEMENT connex connexion consider creatures cultivated danger degree Deity DELIVERED depend deportment divine doctrine duty earth effect eternal evil exist feelings give habits happiness heart honour ideas imagination immutable important independence individual indolence influence intel intellectual intelligent interest JAMES BOWDOIN ject judgment knowledge language lect less ligion literary love of praise matter means ment moral character nature ness never nexion nihilated object obligation occasion opinion perceive perhaps persons philosophy of mind piety possess powers present President Appleton principle produced profes profession proportion public seminaries pursuit quired rational reason receive rectitude regard relation religion remarks render reputation requires respect restraint result secure sion Sir William Jones society speak spects talents things thought tion truth virtue and vice virtuous wrong Young Gentlemen yourselves youth 米米米
Popular passages
Page 45 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 47 - When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light ; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Page 98 - Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vice , . From evry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss...
Page 16 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all, that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve...
Page 112 - Christ restored a blessed correspondence between heaven and earth : for it pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness dwell : and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven, Col.
Page 72 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 52 - A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Page ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 113 - Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings, And seems to creep, decrepit with his age ; Behold him, when past by ; what then is seen, But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind, in contradiction strong, Rueful, aghast ! cry out on his career.
Page 171 - Many of the endowments and talents we now possess, and of which we are too apt to be proud, will cease entirely with the present state ; but this will be our ornament and dignity, in every future state, to which we may be removed.