Life of Josiah MeigsJ.P. Murphy, printer, 1887 - Всего страниц: 132 |
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Стр. 132 - My lips with shame my sins confess • Against thy law, against thy grace : Lord, should thy judgment grow severe, I am condemned, but thou art clear. 0 5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death ; And if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well.
Стр. 131 - A Penitent pleading for Pardon. 1 CHOW pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive; ^ Let a repenting rebel live : Are not thy mercies large and free ? May not a sinner trust in thee ? 2 My crimes are great, but don't surpass The power and glory of thy grace ; Great God, thy nature hath no bound, So let thy pardoning love be found.
Стр. 132 - My lips with shame my sins confess Against thy law, against thy grace : Lord, should thy judgment grow severe, I am condemned, but thou art clear. 5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death ; And if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well.
Стр. 37 - The two brilliant men who led the two great divisons of national thought were not mere declaimers ; they never for a moment misunderstood each other ; they were in deadly earnest, and no compromise between them ever was or ever will be possible. Mr. Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the world perish than that this principle, which to him represented \ all that man was worth, should fail. Mr. Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and...
Стр. 102 - ... meetings were held in the hall of the House of Representatives, where Southard, Clay, Everett, Meigs, and Adams, delivered addresses upon matters of science and political economy to large assemblages of public men. In 1819, Josiah Meigs, its president, writing to Dr. Daniel Drake, of Cincinnati, said: I have little doubt that this Congress will, before they rise, give the institute a few acres of ground for our building and for a Botanic Garden. Mr. Barlow made groat efforts to obtain this object...
Стр. 132 - Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, I must pronounce thee just in death ; And if my soul were sent to hell, Thy righteous law approves it well. 6 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord, Whose hope, still hov'ring round thy word, Would light on some sweet promise there, Some sure support against despair.
Стр. 82 - In 1817, or before he began to advocate Congressional action for the establishment of meteorological registers in connection with the Laud Office, writing to Dr. Daniel Drake in 1817, he said: If my plan be adopted, and the registers be furnished with the requisite instruments for temperature, pressure, rain, wind, etc., * • " we may, in the course of a year, know more than we shall be able to know on any other plan.
Стр. 129 - Whereas, slavery in the United States is an evil of great and increasing magnitude ; one which merits the greatest efforts of this nation to remedy : Therefore, " Resolved, That a committee be appointed to...
Стр. 32 - Meigs — 1794 to 1801 — delivered lectures on natural philosophy from the pulpit of the College Chapel. He was a gentleman of great intelligence, and had read Chaptal, Lavoisier, and other chemical writers of the French school. From these, and perhaps other sources, he occasionally introduced chemical facts and principles in common with those of natural philosophy.
Стр. 122 - Some think this was the real design of the fictitious performance, but others, with more reason, that it was intended to feel the public pulse, and to discover whether the public mind would be startled with propositions of Royalty. The quondam tories have undoubtedly conceived hopes of a future union with Great Britain, from the inefficacy of our Government, and the tumults which prevailed in Massachusetts during the last winter. I saw a letter, written at that period, by a Clergyman of considerable...