Proceedings at the Dedication of the Lincoln Library, Massachusetts: August 5, 1884. With an Appendix |
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A. P. PEABODY accept ancestors planted beautiful behalf benefactor bless Board of Selectmen Board of Trustees Book Room born in Lincoln Boston Chairman character Charles Stearns chimney-corner Church collection of books coln Concord DEDICATION deed deep and accurate duty Edmond Wheeler eloquence England town ensample eulogy fathers FELLOW-CITIZENS AND FRIENDS freedom G. G. Tarbell Garfield GEORGE F GEORGE GROSVENOR TARBELL gift give giver grandson gratitude Harvard College heard hearers hills hoards of truth honor INHABITANTS OF LINCOLN institutions knowledge lecture Librarian Librarian's Room Library building LINCOLN LIBRARY lived MASSACHUSETTS natural philosophy noble offering persons preest Professor Farrar Professor John Farrar quarry glass Revolution Samuel Farrar Samuel H SAMUEL HARTWELL Samuel Hoar School Committee shepe solar system sturdy Saxon thanks thought tion town of Lincoln Town shall elect treasures uttered voice wainscot WILLIAM F wolde yonder young youth
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Page 22 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 23 - Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones. A better preest I trowe that nowher non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.
Page 23 - Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder, But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder, In sikenesse and in mischief to visite 495 The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, •-!:'.' That first he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Page 23 - But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were of highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones.
Page 36 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the...
Page 34 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Page 20 - In most of the parts of England which have fallen within my observation, I have rarely known a farmer, who to his own trade has not added some other employment or traffic, that, after a course of the most unremitting parsimony and labour...
Page 36 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 23 - So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.
Page 20 - ... (such for the greater part is theirs) and persevering in his business for a long course of years, died worth more than paid his debts, leaving his posterity to continue in nearly the same equal conflict between industry and want, in which the last predecessor, and a long line of predecessors before him, lived and died.