Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-1849, Volumes 1-75 |
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AARON BANCROFT ABIJAH BIGELOW adjourned American Antiquarian Society amount ancient annual meeting Antiquarian Hall Antiquarian Society held antiquary antiquities appointed Balance BANGS BENJAMIN RUSSELL C. C. Baldwin Cash Catalogue CHARLES LOWELL collection copy Council Counsellors deposit Dixmont Doct dollars donations duties EDWARD EDWARD D elected EMORY WASHBURN ESQ'R Exchange Coffee House expense files furnished hundred Indian institution interest rec'd Isaiah Thomas JAMES JAMES BOWDOIN John Davis JOSEPH STORY labor letter LEVI LINCOLN Librarian Librarian's Fund LIBRARIAN'S REPORT Library and Cabinet LL.D MERRILL Middlebury Mortgage newspapers notes o'clock P.M. objects OCTOBER 23 officers pamphlets present preserved President printed Rec'g Sec'y received Recording Secretary REJOICE NEWTON respectfully submitted SAM'L SAMUEL JENNISON semi-annual Report Society in acc't Society's Sub-Council tion Transactions Treas Treasurer TREASURER'S REPORT valuable Vice-President volumes Voted WILLIAM JENKS WILLIAM LINCOLN Winthrop Worcester Bank Stock
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Page 69 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death...
Page 33 - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 72 - When the late Mr. Anson (lord Anson's brother) was upon his travels in the East, he hired a vessel to visit the isle of Tenedos. His pilot, an old Greek, as they were sailing along, said, with some satisfaction, " There it was our fleet lay." Mr. Anson demanded, "What fleet?" "What fleet?" replied the old man, (a little piqued at the question,) " Why, our Grecian fleet, at the siege of Troy.
Page 8 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 103 - For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow...
Page 61 - That we may make the Institution better comport with the name it bears — " American Antiquarian Society"— and more readily effect the purposes intended, it will be expedient to have a suitable number of respectable and ,useful members in all the principal cities and towns in the United States, and some in the interiour of every state.
Page 223 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States, be requested to use their best efforts to...
Page 93 - Happily for himself, and for the country by which he was employed, he joined to the ardent temper and inventive genius of a projector, virtues of another species, which are rarely united with them. He possessed a thorough knowledge of mankind, an insinuating address, a patient perseverance in executing any plan, the perfect government of his own passions, and the talent of acquiring an ascendant over those of other men.
Page 11 - SOCIETY ; and that they and their successors, and such other persons as shall be legally elected by them, shall be and continue a body politic and corporate, by that name forever.
Page 455 - ... BA Gould, Jr., laid before the Academy a letter from the widow of the late Professor Schumacher, gratefully acknowledging the receipt of the letter of condolence, on account of the recent death of her husband, addressed to her by the committee of the Academy appointed for that purpose. It was then voted to proceed to the choice of officers for the ensuing year. The following gentlemen were chosen officers of the Academy, viz. : — JACOB BIGELOW, MD, . . President. HON. EDWARD EVERETT, . . Vice-President....