The Celebration of Intellect
Celebration of Intellect (delivered at Harvard in 1870)
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I Thoughts on Modern Literature
    IN our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better day. When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege…
Literary Ethics
An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies ofDartmouth College, July 24, 1838 GENTLEMEN, The invitation to address you this day, with which you have honored me, was so welcome, that I made haste to obey it. A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me, as to overcome the…
XXII Robert Burns
XXII ROBERT BURNS SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE BURNS CENTENARY, BOSTON JANUARY 25, 1859 “His was the music to whose tone The common pulse of man keeps time In cot or castle’s mirth or moan, In cold or sunny clime. Praise to the bard! his words are driven, Like Rower-seeds by the far…
Vol VI – Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)
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IV Emancipation in the British West Indies
IV ADDRESS DELIVERED IN CONCORD ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NEGROES, IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, AUGUST 1, 1844. THERE a captive sat in chains, Crooning ditties treasured well From his Afric’s torrid plains. Sole estate his sire bequeathed, – Hapless sire to hapless son, – Was the wailing song he breathed,…
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The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land. It is nor less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors. The land, the care of…