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Remarks in behalf of the Council, by George Livermore: p. 3-14. Full view - 1864 - 16 pages - Biography & Autobiography |
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ReviewsWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places.Write review Popular passages... never known an individual of a character more elevated and chivalric, acting according to a purer standard of morals, imbued with a higher sense of honor, and uniting more intimately the qualities of the gentleman, the soldier, the scholar, and the Christian. Page 10 Grahame's character, and held his work in high estimation. He felt that it was " incumbent upon some American to do justice to the memory of a foreigner who had devoted the chief and choicest years of his life to writing a history of our country, with a labor, fidelity, and affectionate zeal for the American people and their institutions, which any native citizen may be proud to equal, and will find it difficult to surpass. Page 10 Avas resumed, and was finished in February, 1852, at the close of the author's eightieth year, is mainly devoted to an account of the City government during the period of his mayoralty. In the preface he says : " It appeared to the author, that a municipal history of the Town, and an accurate account of the transactions in the first years of the City government, would be useful and interesting to the public in future times, and was due to the wisdom, fidelity, and disinterested services of his associates. Page 8 This Memoir was first printed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society ; and was afterwards prefixed to a new edition of Mr. Grahame's History, as revised and enlarged by the author, and published, in this country, after his death, under the auspices of his biographer. In the eighty-seventh year of his age, Mr. Quincy completed and published his " Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams," — a fair volume of over four hundred pages. Connected by family ties, nearly his co-eval,... Page 11 At our last Annual Meeting, when we commemorated the completion of the first half-century of our existence as an association, we all listened with rare gratification to the letter of a venerable founder of the Society, whose interest in its welfare had continued from the first, and... Page 3 Of all monuments raised to the memory of distinguished men, the most appropriate and the least exceptionable are those whose foundations are laid in their own works, and which are constructed of materials supplied and wrought by their own labours. Page 9 City, he entered upon the administration of its affairs with that indomitable energy which ever distinguished his public life. The recent transition from a town to a city government had brought with it the necessity of important changes in old modes of proceeding, and of the establishment of new institutions. Here the wisdom and foresight, as well as energy, of Mr. Quincy were fully exercised ; and he lived to see even those of his measures which at the time met with only partial approval, and others... Page 7 City"; an eloquent commentary on its history, full of noble sentiments, and a model production of its kind. He gave, in a condensed form, the result of much antiquarian research into the manners and customs, laws and principles, of former generations ; and he did not fail to enforce in the strongest terms the lessons they suggested. The larger History of Boston, which, after a lapse of twenty years... Page 8 But hitherto there were to be found only scattered notices of its origin, action, and influence, which awakened, but could not satisfy, the curiosity even of those who knew it best from having been nurtured in its bosom. In 1833, was published the excellent, summary, though uncompleted and posthumous, volume of Mr. Peirce, the librarian of the University. But a full History was still a desideratum. For more than a quarter of a century, a vote of the Corporation, requesting the President to prepare... Page 5 ... existence as an association, we all listened with rare gratification to the letter of a venerable founder of the Society, whose interest in its welfare had continued from the first, and who had, during his life of more than ninety years, in various ways promoted the objects for which it was formed. Page 3 Other editions
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