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Prose Selections

1927

The pleasure of success is equisite; so also is the anxiety of the pursuit and the pain of disappointment : and what is the worst part of the.account the pleasure is short-lived. [...] of spring and autumn of winter and summer; to feel hot and cold pleasure and pain beauty and deformity right and wrong; to be sensible to the accidents of nature; to consider the mighty world of eye and ear; to listen to the stock-dove's notes amid the forest deep; to journey over moor and mountain; to hear the midnight sainted choir; to visit lighted halls or the cathedral's gloom or sit in [...] But our object is by this edifice to show our own deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ant cestors; and by presenting this work of gratitude to the eve to keep alive similar sentiments and to foster a constant regard for the principles of the Revolution. [...] Two or three millions of people have been augmented to twelve; and the great forests of the 'West prostrated beneath the arm of successful industry; and the dwellers on the banks of the Ohio and the Mississippi become the fellow citizens and neighbours of those who cultivate the hills of New England. [...] Yet notwithstanding that this is but a faint abstract of the things which have happened since the day of the battle of Bunker Hill we are but fifty years removed from it; and we now stand here to enjoy all the blessings of our own condition and to look abroad on the brightened prospects of the world while we hold still among us some of those who were active agents in the scenes of 1775 and
education
Pages
293
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144481
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii unknown view
William Paley (1743-1808)
1-15 unknown view
Charles Lamb (1778-1884)
16-21 unknown view
William Hazlitt (1776-1834)
22-44 unknown view
D. Webster (1782-1852)
45-72 unknown view
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
73-82 unknown view
Edgar Allan Poe (18O91849)
83-109 unknown view
Alexander Smith (1830-1867)
110-127 unknown view
Anatole France (born 1844)
128-135 unknown view
James Lane Allen (born 1849)
136-164 unknown view
R. L. Stevenson (1850-1894;)
165-180 unknown view
Henry van Dyke (born 1852)
181-193 unknown view
Jerome K. Jerome (born 1859)
194-222 unknown view
Sir Asutosh Mookerjee (1864-1924)
223-246 unknown view
H. I. M. King George V (born 3rd June 1868)
247-254 unknown view
Viscount Bryce (born 1888)
255-274 unknown view
Alice Meynell
275-280 unknown view
Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
281-286 unknown view

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