Address to the Members of the City Council on the Removal of the Municipal Government to the Old State HouseJ.H. Eastburn, 1830 - 15 sivua |
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Sivu 9 - Ind," entitled in history to more honorable mention, or whose spires and turrets are surrounded with a more glorious halo, than this unpretending building. This assertion might be justified, by a review of the parts performed by those who have made laws, for a century after the first settlement of Boston — of their early contention for their chartered rights — of their perils and difficulties with the natives — of their costly and heroic exertions in favor of the mother country in the common...
Sivu 7 - House considered merely as a compages of brick and wood is short and simple. It was erected between the years 1657 and 1659, and was principally of wood, as far as can be ascertained. The contractor received six hundred and eighty pounds, on a final settlement in full of all contracts. This was probably the whole amount of the cost, being double that of the estimate — a ratio pretty regularly kept up in our times. The population of the town sixty years afterwards was about ten thousand, and it...
Sivu 6 - Phidias ; — the reflections of all not dead to sentiment, who descend to the subterranean habitation of Pompeii, — handle the utensils that once ministered to the wants, and the ornaments subservient to the luxury of a polished city, — behold the rut of wheels upon the pavement hidden for ages from human sight, — and realize the awful hour when the hum of industry and the song of joy, the wailing of the infant and the garrulity of age, were suddenly and forever silenced by the fiery deluge...
Sivu 13 - But I would not wish, under any circumstances, to dwell upon incidents like these, thankful as I am that time, which has secured our freedom, has extinguished our resentments. I therefore turn from these painful reminiscences, and refer you to the day when Independence, mature in age and loveliness, advanced with angelic grace from the chamber in which she was born into the same balcony, and holding in her hand the immortal scroll on which her name and character and claims to her inheritance were...
Sivu 8 - Government, and its principal officers, while the first floor is allotted to the post office, news room, and private warehouses. In this brief account of the natural body of the building, which it is believed comprehends whatever is material, there is nothing, certainly, dazzling or extraordinary. It exhibits no pomp of architectural grandeur, or refined taste ; and has no pretensions to vie with the magnificent structures of other countries, or even of our own. Yet is it a goodly and venerable pile...
Sivu 8 - Committee rooms were provided in the upper story. Since the removal of the Legislature, it has been internally divided into apartments and leased for various uses in a mode familiar to you all, and it has now undergone great repairs. This floor being adapted to the accommodation of the City Government, and principal officers, while the first floor is allotted to the post office, news room and private warehouses.
Sivu 5 - ... in the eternity to come, are inevitably associated with the men, the events and things, which have gone to join the eternity that is past. — When imagination has in vain essayed to rise beyond the stars which "proclaim the story of their birth," inquisitive to know the occupations and condition of the sages and heroes whom we hope to join in a higher empyrean, she drops her weary wing, and is compelled to alight among the fragments of " gorgeous palaces and cloud-capp'd towers...
Sivu 5 - ... or patriotism, from the fashionable vagabond, who flutters among the flowers, which bloom over their graves. Among all the objects of mental association, ancient buildings and ruins affect us with the deepest and most vivid emotions. They were the works of beings like ourselves. While a mist, impervious to mortal view, hangs over the future, all our fond imaginings of the things, which " eye hath not seen nor ear heard...
Sivu 6 - Sepulchre and believes he sees the place where the Lord was laid. From this originate the musings of the scholar, who, amid the ruins of the Parthenon and the Acropolis, transports his imagination to the age of Pericles and Phidias ; — the reflections of all not dead to sentiment, who descend to the subterranean habitation of Pompeii — handle the utensils that once ministered to the wants, and the ornaments subservient to the luxury of a polished city — behold the rut of wheels upon the pavement...
Sivu 11 - Colonies," adopted by the legislature as a Text book, and transmitted by their order to the British Ministry ? To the series of patriotic resolutions protests and State papers teeming with indignant eloquence and irresistible argument in opposition to the Stamp and other tax acts ? — to the landing and quartering of troops in the town ? To the rescinding of resolutions in obedience to royal mandates ? To the removal of the seat of Government and the untiring struggle in which the Legislature was...