MOORE.DENMAN. - MOORE. - BROUGHAM. 527 Like ships that have gone down at sea Lalla Rookh. The Light of the Harem. When heaven was all tranquillity. Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. Ibid. And oh if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this! Humility, that low, sweet root From which all heavenly virtues shoot. Ibid. The Loves of the Angels. The Third Angel's Story. LORD DENMAN. 1779-1854. A delusion, a mockery, and a snare. O'Connell v. The Queen, 11 Clark and Finnelly Reports. The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle. Ibid. CLEMENT C. MOORE. 1779-1863. 'T was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, A Visit from St. Nicholas. LORD BROUGHAM. 1779-1868. Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Speech, Jan. 29, 1828. — JAMES. — In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, kings, lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box. Present State of the Law, Feb. 7, 1828. Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.1 PAUL MOON JAMES. 1780-1854. The scene was more beautiful far to the eye The Beacon. And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope, Ibid. CHARLES MINER. 1780-1865. When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. Who'll turn Grindstones,8 1 The title given by Lord Brougham to a book published in 1830. 2 Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror. - CAMPBELL: Lives of the Chancellors, vol. vii. p. 163. Lord St. Leonards attributes this phrase to Sir Charles Wetherell, who used it on the occasion referred to by Lord Campbell. From Edmund Curll's practice of issuing miserable catch-penny lives of every eminent person immediately after his decease, Arbuthnot wittily styled him "one of the new terrors of death."- CARRUTHERS: Life of Pope (second edition), p. 149. 8 From "Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe," Doylestown, Pa., 1815. It first appeared in the "Wilkesbarre Gleaner," 1811. JOHN C. CALHOUN. 1782-1850. The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts,1 bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. Speech, Feb. 13, 1835. A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.2 Speech, May 27, 1836. (From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857.) Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1820.8 Vol. i. p. 44. We wish that this column, rising towards heaven. among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit! Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill 1 See Appendix, page 859. 2 From this comes the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder." 8 This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever. - JOHN ADAMS: Letter to Webster, Dec. 23, 1821. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 64. Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. Ibid. P. 71. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. Ibid. P. 74. Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. Ibid. P. 78. Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty. Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93. The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. Ibid. P. 102. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. Thank God! I - I also Ibid. P. 105. am an American! Ibid. P. 107. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.1 Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 133. 1 Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon, Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination." - JOHN ADAMS: Works, vol. iv. p. 8. Live or die, sink or swim.- PEELE: Edward I. (1584?). It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,-Independence now and Independence forever.1 Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Vol. i. p. 136. Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. Washington is in the clear upper sky.2 Ibid. P. 146. Ibid. P. 148. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.3 Speech on Hamilton, March 10, 1831. P. 200. One country, one constitution, one destiny. Speech, March 15, 1837. P. 349. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization. Remarks on Agriculture, Jan. 13, 1840. P. 457. Sea of upturned faces.1 Speech, Sept. 30, 1842. Vol. i. p. 117. Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. 1 Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams: "On the day of his death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon, he asked the occasion. On being reminded that it was 'Independent Day,' he replied, 'Independence forever.'". Works, vol. i. p. 150. BANCROFT History of the United States, vol. vii. P. 65. 2 We shall be strong to run the race, WATTS: Spiritual Hymns, xxiv. 8 He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.BARRY YELVERTON (Lord Avonmore): On Blackstone. 4 See Scott, page 493. |