Book/Printed Material Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his native city, Sept. 17, 1856
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Image 1 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … i aa paLees as MR WINTHROPS ORATION AT THE PNA Gaui AL EOmN OF THE STATUE OF FRANKLIN SEPTEMBER 17 1856 SATA WG 9D- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 2 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his …- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 3 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … ORATION Ea PeINAUGURALION OF THE STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKUIN ON HSS NAM oven GD SEPT 17 1856 BY HON ROBERT C WINTHROP BOSTON PRESS OF T R MARVIN 42 CONGRESS STREET 1856- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 4 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his …- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 5 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … San est a ORATION We are assembled Mr Mayor and Fellow Citizens to do honor to the memory of one of whom it is little to say that from the moment at…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 6 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 4 7 _ umphsof their boyhood and which are justly prized by every one that wins and wears them beyond all the insignia which Kings or Emperors could bestowI hail the presence…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
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Image 7 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 5 site Composer who would almost seem to have been rendered deaf to the noises of earth that he might catch the very music of the spheres and transfer it to the…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 8 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 6 enlargement of which it was finally removed about the year 1748 there might have been seen a plain wooden building of a story and a half in height in which Ezexren…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 9 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 7 school and sent to a school for writing and arithmetic kept by a then famous man Mr George Brownwell where he learned to write a good hand pretty soon but failed…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 10 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 8 such a career Even the barest and briefest allusion to the posts which were successively held and the services to his country and to mankind which were successively rendered by the…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 11 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 9 a printer that he set such an example to his fellowmechanics of all ages of industry temperance and frugality of truth sincerity and integrity The industry of that Franklin said an…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 12 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 10 that he laid the foundations strong and deep of a character which no temptations or trials could ever shake and of a fame which will know no limits but those of…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
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Image 13 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 11 ing his little kite with an iron point at the top of the stick and a steel key at the end of the hempen string to draw delib erately down upon…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 14 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 12 equal foree move more slowly in shoal than in deep water and forth with he engages in patient experiments to verify and illustrate the lesson for the benefit of those who…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 15 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 15 Franklin made his first formal appearance on the political stage at the age of thirty years in the humble capacity of Clerk of the Gene ral Assembly of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 16 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 14 regularly sworn in as Colonel and learn that several glasses of his electrical apparatus were shaken down and broken by the volleys fired under his windows as a salute after the…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 17 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 15 lightning of Heavento snatch the sceptre from tyrants as the thunderbolt from the clouds and he might almost seem to have adopted as the motto of his life those noble lines…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 18 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 16 publicly acknowledging the utter insufficiency of all human wisdom and calling upon his associates to unite with him in humbly apply ing to the Father of Lights to illuminate their understandings…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 19 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 17 brilliant service though it has been said on good authority that the British Expedition against Canada with its memorable results in the victory of Wolfe and the conquest of Quebec may…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 20 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 18 country and had the care of settling this momentous business he should not be ashamed of publicly calling to his assistance a person so perfectly acquainted with the whole of American…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 21 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … i surpassing character had not yet broken forth fullorbed on the admi ration of the European world as it was destined to do no lone time afterwards With that character at this…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 22 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 20 of all her people as one of the great American Negotiators and Diplomatists of our Revolutionary age And now my Friends over and above the four distinct and sep arate phases…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 23 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 21 ever earned the reputation of a doer of good and of having lived usefully it was Benjamin Franklin No life was ever more eminently and practically a useful life than his…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 24 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 22 To his native place which is now about to honor him afresh Frank lin never failed to manifest the warmest regard and affection Never forgetting that he owed his first instructions…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
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Image 25 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 23 Thad a sight of it but could not enter it being in possession of the enemy I did hope to have been there in 1783 but could not obtain my dismission…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 26 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 24 of his birthplace Something more was called for by the general voice of his country Something more was due to the claims of historic justice The deliberate opinion of the world…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
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Image 27 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 25 Behold the man towhom Washington himself wrote for the con solation of his declining strengtha consolation more precious than all the compliments and distinctions which were ever showered upon him by…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
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Image 28 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 26 confidence and courage which shall never agaim suffer you to despair not merely of securing the means of an honest and honorable support for yourselves but even of doing something worthy…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 29 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 27 stitution under which we live And Mr Madison tells us that whilst the last members were signing it Dr Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair at the back of which an…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 30 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … 28 Artist Richard 8 Greenoughwho has so admirably conceived the character and so exquisitely wrought out the design committed to him Honor too to Mr Ames and the skillful Mechanics of the…- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
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Image 31 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … a- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
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Image 32 of Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his … LIBRARY OF CONGRES LAMA S- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1856
About this Item
Title
- Oration at the inauguration of the statue of Benjamin Franklin : in his native city, Sept. 17, 1856
Names
- Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894
Created / Published
- Boston : Press of T.R. Marvin, 1856.
Headings
- - Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790
Notes
- - Cover title: Mr. Winthrop's oration at the inauguration of the statue of Franklin, September 17, 1856.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 28 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E302.6.F8 W79
Library of Congress Control Number
- 14003699
OCLC Number
- 3424809
Online Format
- online text
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