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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...when no civil or social right is denied to any citizen because of birth, or race, or color, or faith, or sex, the trinmph will be due to free discussion by a free press. The President remarked that Mrs. Partington, the only lady invited-guest of the society who was expected to respond on this occasion, was in trouble with her a-sciatic nerves, sometimes called rheumatism, but had sent her knitting-work by her son, Mr. William Shillaber, who then read the following poem by Benjamin P. Shillaber. Disciples of the stick and rule, I rise responsive to your wishes, Though while I speak, perchance may cool Other more intellectual dishes. I have no effort great to bring, With rhetoric's jewels brightly glinting, But just a word to say or sing In praise of our old mother--Printing. Coincident with honors meet For our illustrious printer Brother, Whose advent here with pride we greet--A worthy son of such a mother;--Whose name in love is heard to-day, By lips of burning fervor spoken; Whose glory gilds, as with a ray, The Craft of which he's grandest token. We prize our venerable Art Our fondly cherished Alma Mater; With discipline she tried our heart, And taught us thus to venerate her. She strove to rouse ambition up, To grasp at affluence of knowledge; She proffered draughts from Wisdom's cup, That was not filled at school or college. She pointed, through a thousand doors, To fields of intellectual clover; She led where mighty Learning's stores Awaited for the hungry rover. Alas! that they were not improved, Those opportunities so precious! 'T was no fault of the Art beloved That the result was not more gracious. So tempting were the verdant meads--The freedom so profuse and ample--That few beyond their present needs Cared for the flowers which they might trample...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151671226
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151671223
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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