Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration of South Carolina College, 1805-1905: January 8, 9, 10, 1905State Company, 1905 - 239 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Address Alma Mater alumni ANDREW SLEDD Artillery Band Barnwell Board of Trustees Centennial celebration century character Charleston Christian Christie Benet citizenship Clariosophic Society College of South Columbia common schools congratulations CYRUS NORTHROP DUNCAN CLINCH HEYWARD duty Euphradian Society faculty feel future gentlemen give glorious glory Governor graduates greeting halls heart Henry Mullins higher education highest honor hope hundred ideals influence inspiring institution instruction James H John Jonathan Maxcy labors learning lege Legislature lina Literary Societies lives Means Davis ment mind moral names nation noble occasion past patriotic political present President Benjamin Sloan Professor prosperity religion religious scholar Senator sons soul South Caro South Carolina College spirit teacher thee things Thornwell tion to-day to-night truth United United States Senator University upper country voices Wade Hampton William WILLIAM FLINN Wofford College young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 196 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Seite 196 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Seite 38 - I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.
Seite 227 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Seite 196 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Seite 194 - Popular education is necessary for the preservation of those conditions of freedom, political and social, which are indispensable to free individual development. And, in the second place, no instrumentality less universal in its power and authority than government can secure popular education. . . . Without popular education, moreover, no government which rests upon popular action can long endure. The people must be schooled in the knowledge, and, if possible, in the virtues upon which the maintenance...
Seite 74 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more ; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Seite 170 - The hero, fresh from his early fields, redolent of fame, and with a form on which 'every god did seem to set his seal, to give the world assurance of a man.
Seite 156 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Seite 32 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.