Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other people's time. Mr. Quincy was one of the first gentlemen of leisure. His stories are most charming; his letters are models in their way; he stood in the fore-front of the desperately unpopular cause of Abolition; was a finished scholar, a delightful man, and a thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right. Leisure, unemployed, is apt, as Dr. Watts has kindly pointed out to us, to be a source of harm...
...lowest - but one not to be despised - the personal success of rank and wealth. This is in the power of any who has iron enough in his nature to say, "I ought, I can, I will." Higher, is the service of one's country. One, who as a patriot can rank himself with that list, has not lived in vain. But highest is the ambition - neither personal or patriotic - to be a Christian. No names will be brighter than these. To do this you must make yourselves men; and what he meant by this term, he illustrated by quotations from...
...rich enough in America in historical monuments and memories to let so noteworthy a building go without a protest. Here was the headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed...
Then from his patriot tongue of flame
...subject of college songs also troubles the Times man. "There is no patriot who does not blush when the subject of American college songs is mentioned. Not one gleam of humor can be found among them; and with the exception of two or three, the music of which is German, they are without any musical merit. With his curious ignorance of humor, the undergraduate believes that certain of these songs are humorous. What must be the mental condition of the person who holds that it is funny to repeat in unmusical chorus the words 'co-ca-che-lung, che-lung...