The City Hall, Providence: Corner-stone Laid, June 24, 1875. Dedicated, November 14, 1878Prepared and printed by authority of the City Council, 1881 - 108 Seiten |
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A. R. Whitney Abner H Abraham Payne Addison Q AMERICAN BAND appointed architect Barker Barnaby basement blessing Board of Aldermen bounded by Dorrance brick Brothers Carpenter chairman Charles city council city hall commission city hall commissioners City of Providence Commandery common council contract contractor Corliss corner-stone CORRIDOR dedication departments Dorrance street Doyle duty EDWIN BAKER elected entrance erected feet Fire-proof floors Fulton streets furniture George H grand master granite Henry Henry G honor Horatio Rogers Iron James James Y Job Durfee John joint special committee June labor Lewis Peirce M. W. Grand Lodge master of masons mayor ment Messrs municipal oration plans Police Potter Private public buildings Recorder of Deeds resolution Rhode Island Roger Williams rooms S. J. F. Thayer Samuel J. F. Thayer Senior Warden Seth Padelford sioners Smith South Kingstown stone Superintendent Thee Thomas Thou tion town William G. R. Mowry William W
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Seite 77 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Seite 28 - Nature bless the inhabitants of this place with all the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of life; assist in the erection and completion of this...
Seite 83 - Advance, then, ye future generations ! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the Fathers.
Seite 32 - ... and, otherwise than thus what is herein forbidden, all men may walk as their consciences persuade them, every one in the name of his God ; and let the saints of the Most High walk in this colony without molestation, in the name of Jehovah their God, forever and ever.
Seite 76 - I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzlcd eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 77 - We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government ; nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood, long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be, after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity.
Seite 83 - We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers. We bid you welcome to the healthful skies and the verdant fields of New England. We greet your accession to the great inheritance which we have enjoyed. We welcome you to the blessings of good government and religious liberty. We welcome you to the treasures of science and the delights of learning. We welcome you to the transcendent sweets of domestic life, to the happiness of kindved, and parents, and children. We welcome you to the immeasurable...
Seite 32 - These are the laws that concern all men, and these are the penalties for the transgression thereof, which, by common consent, are ratified and established throughout the whole colony. And otherwise than thus, what is herein forbidden, all men may walk as their consciences persuade them, every one in the name of his God. AND LET THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH WALK IN THIS COLONY WITHOUT MOLESTATION, IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH THEIR GOD, FOR EVER AND EVER.
Seite 31 - ... sufferings the Divine precept of doing unto others as they would have others do unto them. When that handful of exiles landed on yonder shore, almost within sight of where we stand, the red man haunted the primeval...
Seite 82 - ... parents and sisters who perhaps are now listening and waiting for letters from the battle-field. Before this night is over, loving friends will bear their dead sons home. An express has gone from Winchester to tell them all. They might with truth exclaim, with one of old, whose son was thus slain, " I would not give my dead son for any living son in Christendom.