Eulogy on Charles Carroll of Carrolton: Delivered Before the Academus Society of Mt. St. Mary's College, December 20th, 1832William R. Lucas, 1832 - 32 pages |
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Page 28 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.
Page 31 - Non vidit flagrantem bello Italiam, non ardentem invidia senatum,' non sceleris nefarii principes civitatis reos, non luctum filiae, non exilium generi, non acerbissimam C.
Page 27 - ... unquestionable authority that he did at one period in his life, by the advice and with the aid of his illustrious relative, the first Archbishop of Baltimore, make it his chief occupation and delight for three successive years, pursuing in the most regular manner a course of theological investigation. . . . New strength was added to his reasons and motives for remaining in communion with the great majority of Christians, and professing the faith of Fe"nelon and Columbus.
Page 26 - ... honor and patriotism were not with him words of pretty sound and profitable use, so neither were his religion and morality mere subjects of philosophic speculation or commonplace eulogy, but living, active principles of conduct, influencing him in all his relations, civil, social and domestic. . . . Nor be it said that he blindly acquiesced in the dogmas of an hereditary creed. If any man's faith was deeply laid in rational conviction it was that of Charles Carroll. The advantages of his excellent...
Page 19 - Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States...
Page 7 - Baltimore, in brochure form. The New York Public Library possesses a copy of this rare pamphlet. Dealing with the fact that Carroll studied at the College of Louis le Grand, Paris, a famous Jesuit institution, the speaker declared: " [He] thus finished his humanities in the same institution which subsequently became the alma mater of the venerable founder of our own and Mount St. Mary's — his friend in after life, to whose protection here, and at St. Joseph's, he saw with so much pleasure the early...
Page 16 - No surgeon before or since has filled so large a space in the public eye as Cooper.
Page 3 - The fiftieth anniversary of the day on which it was solemnly promulgated to the world, "that these United States are, and of right ought to be free and independent...