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AN ORATION

LIFE AND CHARACTER

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS:

DELLIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF CINCINNATI,

On the twenty-second day of March, 184a

BY TIMOTHY WALKER.

P UB LIS BED BY REQ UES T.

CINCINNATI:
J. F. DESILVER.
GAZETTE OFFICE  WRIGHT, FISHER & CO., PRINTERS.
1848.

YALE

ORATION.

I ENTER, fellow citizens, upon the performance of the part assigned
to me in these solemnities, with a painful consciousness of my ina
bility to give utterance to what all of us feel to be due to the occa
sion. I have found it impossible to put my own conceptions into
words. How then can I hope to give adequate expression to yours?
For what is the event we thus commemorate?
The angel of Death, ever hovering over these regions of mortality,
to execute his dread commission from the Almighty Throne, has
struck down the most aged, the most venerable, and the most illustri
ous of our public servants, John Quinct Adams. Dust thou art,
and unto dust shall thou return. This inexorable fiat, pronounced
upon all the human race, has taken him from among the living. So
far as such a man can die, he died on the morning of the 23d of
February last. To him, in his last sublime and solemn words, that
was the end of earth, and he loas content! His work was done, his au
dit closed, and the balance struck for time and for eternity. Blessed
are the dead that die in llie Lord; for they rest from their labors, and
their works do follow them! Yes, that weather-beaten, toil-worn frame
now rests from its labors, in the last long repose; while the ever liv
ing soul, fraught with riches of wisdom seldom acquired on earth,
has winged its flight to the Father of Spirits.
But why are we therefore met here together? What is this
man's death to us? Was he of our kindred? No. Few of us, per
chance, had ever spoken to him. With none, probably, had he con
sanguinity. Nor is it simply because another man has died — ano
ther drop been taken from the great ocean of existence; for death,
as Hamlet says, is common — the most common as well as certain of all
events. Oftener than our own pulse throbs, the pulse of some other
mortal, somewhere on the globe, ceases to throb. Every second of
time bears witness to the extinction of some human life. What

then is a single unit in this mighty sum? More are born than die;
and the procession of the generations goes on increasing.
What then is this particular death to us? Did it occur prema
turely? No. The deceased was in his eighty-first year — far past
the ordinary goal The shock of corn was fully ripe for the harvest.
It was time for such a man to die. He had fulfilled his great mis
sion, and was waiting for his recall.
And the place — who would have wished such a man to die else
where? He fell in the nation's capitol, at his post of duty, in the
very act, probably, of rising to make some motion. As the great
Chatham fell, so he fell — surrounded by his peers, if peers he had —
say rather, surrounded by the nation's representatives. He fell then
in the place where such a man should fall — where, it is said, he had
expressed a wish to fall. The veteran warrior died on his battle
field. The manner too — what else could have been desired? No driv
elling decrepitude — no lingering agony — no gradual sinking into a
a second childhood. The giant oak was struck down at once by a
bolt from heaven. None had to gaze upon a slowly crumbling ruin.
None will remember him as a worn out imbecile. He was all him
self, while conscious of being. He died then as he might well have
prayed to die. And, whether we look to the time, place, or manner,
we may borrow the language of an ancient author whom he loved
to quote — Felix non vitae lantum darilate, sed etiam opportunitate
mortis.* Had it been the will of Heaven to impress our rulers at
this momentous crisis in our public affairs — when matters of such
grave and solemn import were depending before them  with the
deepest possible sense of the awful responsibilities under which they
were acting — what event so suitable as this? Their Nestor struck
down in their very presence — their Patriarch summoned from their
midst before the bar of Jehovah!
The day too was almost the very one to have been wished. There
are two days, singled out by Americans from all the year as hal
lowed days. On one our National Independence was born, and the
elder Adams and Jefferson died; on the other, Washington was born
and the younger Adams did all but die. For although he breathed'
until the next morning, yet the conscious being was dead. Say
then that this birthday of Washington has acquired new sacred
ness from the death of Adams.

death

Fortunate not only in the renown of his life, but also in the circumstances of his

Are we then met to grieve at such a death as this? Not certainly
for the sake of the departed. For we know from his own dying
lips that he was content. Through life he had ever " walked at
tended by the strong siding champion Conscience." Probably no
man ever looked back upon so long, so high, and so varied a career,
with less to regret in the calm and solemn retrospect. Errors he
doubtless had committed, for he was human. But I am one of those,
who, upon a careful scrutiny of his life, though often differing from
him in opinion, are constrained to believe that his intentions were
always honest. And I have often thought, that were I called upon
to single out, from all the great men of our day, the one who came
nearest to the idea of Horace — Integer vitae, scelerisque purus — de
scribing a man of pure integrity and blameless life — or to that which
Macbeth is made to express of Duncan, who " had borne his facul
ties so meek," and "been so clear in his great office" — or to that
which Cardinal Wolsey is made to paint by way of exhortation to
Cromwell — " Be just and fear not;
" Let all the ends thou aim'st al, be thy Country's,
" Thy God's, and Truth's.: then if thou fall's!, 0 Cromwell,
" Thou fall's! a blessed martyr" —
I say, were I called upon to single out the man of our times, who
most nearly realized these ideals, I should unhesitatingly pronounce
the name of John Quincy Adams.
But this was not the only source of his content. He was more
than simply an honest man. He was, in the deepest and highest
sense of the word, a Christian — in practice as well as faith a Chris
tian. As the sublime precepts of Christianity had been his guide
through life, so its blessed promises became his hope in death.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, yet will
I fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they
comfort me. Immortality was to him, not a philosophic speculation,
but a revealed fact, a glorious certainty. He felt as sure of life be
yond the grave, as of life this side of it. What then was death to
him? Only the commencement of a higher life — the entrance upon
an immediate communion with kindred spirits of all ages and climes
— an introduction to those great and good men of the past, whom
until now he knew only by their undying renown, as benefactors of
their race, handed down by history for perpetual examples — but,
most of all, an admission to the awful presence of his Father, and
our Father, his God, and our God!
" Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail
" Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt,
"Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair,
" .\nd what may quiet us in a death so noble."

Shall we then mourn the loss which our country has sustained?
Such is not my feeling. From the first announcement until now,
the predominant emotion of my bosom has been, profound gratitude
to Heaven for giving us such a man, and sparing him so long. I lose
my regret that he is dead, in my deep joy that he has lived: and this
I believe to be the general sentiment of his countrymen. Now, for
the first time, does the priceless value of such a man begin to be
appreciated. During the latter part of his life, he probably had as
few enemies as any great man ever had. But in politics, party
spirit perversely tinges every thing with its own hues. No eminent
statesman can be without zealous opponents, as well as partizans.
The one detract, as much as the other exaggerate; and the truth
is but dimly seen, if seen at all, through this turbid medium. But
death disperses the mist, dispels the clouds; and through the clear
atmosphere which surrounds their memory, the dead are seen truly,
as they could not be while living. Already has this been most
beautifully exemplified in the case of Mr. Adams. The most glow
ing and heart-felt eulogies, in both Houses of Congress, came fi'om
those who had been his most determined political opponents. Party
animosities were all forgotten; the politician was merged in the
higher character of the man; and the warm sympathies of every
generous heart gushed forth from nature's purest fountains. O this
bitter party spirit! It should be the cause of infinite good, by the
strict espionage it exercises over our public servants, in order to
counterbalance the immense evil it occasions, by smothering (thank
God, not extinguishing!) the noblest emotions of magnanimity and
generosity. But death breaks down these party barriers; dissolves
this incrustation which has hardened round the heart; and in the
eye of man, as in the eye of God, the just on earth become per
fect in Heaven.
This occasion, then, is not one of mourning, for the sake either
of the dead or the living; but rather one for the expression of fer
vent gratitude, and chastened joy, for the precious example of such
a life and death — for the lessons of true wisdom it is designed to
teach, — and for the devout and lofty aspirations which it should ex
cite. In this spirit let it be improved by us.
The history of the life of Mr. Adams is so closely interwoven with
that ol his country — for in fact the one was nearly coeval with the
other — that any thing like a biography from me would be a work
of supererogation. Nevertheless we must glance at some of the more
prominent points, in order to comprehend the full dimensions of such

a man, and delineate at least the outlines of his remarkable char
acter. John Quincy Adams was born at Braintree, now Quincy, Mas
sachusetts, on the 11 th of July, 1767, just on the eve of the great
struggle for Independence. The first sounds he heard were of re
sistance to Tyranny; the first ideas he formed were of the sacred
ness of Liberty. The Rights of Man formed the fireside theme of
his parents; and such parents! — truly a matchless pair! But on
them I must not dwell, further than to say, that if the elements of a
lofty character could be hereditary, the son would have inherited
them by a double descent: for his father was not greater among the
men of that day, than was his mother among the women. Both were
pre-eminent in an age of greatness. Fortunate child, to have received
his first lessons from such teachers. Fortunate parents, to have had
such a child to teach! And rare as fortunate! The instance of the
elder and younger Pitt at once occurs to us; but where shall we
find another parallel? In what other tomb do the ashes of such a
father and son sleep side by side?
From the age of eleven to that of eighteen, the son was, for the
most part, abroad with his father, in his successive missions to
France, Holland, and England, where he enjoyed the benefit of the
best schools in Europe, and was a close and devoted student. While
only fourteen , he was Private Secretary to Francis Dana, our Min
ister to Russia — a case of precocious ability almost without exam
ple. In all these places, his position necessarily brought him into
acquaintance with all the great men of the day; and in London, he
had the inestimable advantage, at that impressible age, of listening
to some of the most splendid efforts of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Sheri
dan. These seven years were emphatically his forming period. To
no youth, perhaps, did it ever occur, to have such rich and various
opportunities for a complete and thorough education, as he now en
joyed. And he made the most of tbem, and then and there laid
the foundation of a scholarship so nearly universal, that, in regard
to the wonderful diversity of his erudition, it may well be doubted
whether, at the time of his death, the world contained his superior.
Without enlarging upon this topic, I would, once for all, point your
attention to the prodigious depth and variety of his learning, as one
of the most unique features in his character — so very little of the
vast field of knowledge did he leave unexplored.
And now, at the age of eighteen, he returns from Europe, a fin
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University, he was graduated at twenty, with distinguished honors.
This was in the memorable year 1787 — the year of the formation
of our national Constitution, and almost the very day of the enact
ment of that celebrated Ordinance, which formed the first law of
this North Western Territory. Think of this fact; for what in the
history of the world's progress is like it? John Quincy Adams was
a college graduate before the Federal Constitution was finished, and
while the State of Ohio was an unbroken wilderness! — that State,
which, in 1843, when he for the first time saw it, at the age of
seventy-six, made his journey through it more than a Roman ova
tion — so deep was the veneration, and so fervent the love of its two
millions of inhabitants for the patriot sage. Of that visit Mr. Adams
has often since spoken, as one of the most gratifying events of his
life. He had once urged Congress in vain to build " a light-house
of the skies;" for there were Constitutional scruples. He came here
to lay the corner stone of one — the first in the world erected on
private subscription — against which there could be no Constitutional
scruples. From the desk where I now speak, he delivered his last
formal Discourse.* And Mount Adams, — so called for him — a name
now thrice hallowed by his death, looking down upon this fair city
at its base, will keep his name in the perpetual remembrance of our
citizens to the latest posterity —
Clarum et venerabile nomen gentibus,
Et multum nostras quod proderat urbi. t
The next seven years, from the age of twenty to twenty-seven,
were devoted to the study, and, to a very limited extent, the prac
tice of law. His preceptor was the late Chief Justice Parsons,
then at the head of the Massachusetts bar, and afterwards regarded
by the profession as the American Coke. And such was the opin
ion of his acquirements in jurisprudence, made in this short period,
that in 1811, while in Russia, he received from Madison an appoint-

* How strikingly applicable to himself are the concluding words of that last Dis
course :
"Man issues from the hand of his Maker a frail and imperfect being. His life be
gins in helpless infancy, and closes with the clods of the valley. Evils, physical,
moral, and intellectual, beset his path from the cradle to the grave, and warn him that
his condition here on earth is a state of probation to fit him for a fairer and better
world. Still, in wending his toilsome way, every step in the progreps ot improve
ment in his condition, approximates him to the boundary where sorrow and grief
are unknown, and where his spirit finds that which was denied him on earth. In
pursuit of happiness, were his hands to be manacled and tied? How absurd' this
question must appear to you! Yet read the history of your race and see!"
t A name renowned and venerable among the nations, and which has greatly ben
efited our city.

ment to the Supreme Bench of the United States, which he saw fit
to dedine. On a recent occasion, the case of the Amistad slaves,
in 1841, he appeared as an advocate before that Court, where, thirty
years before, he had refused to sit as Judge. And how eloquently
and triumphantly he there vindicated the rights of man, down-trod-
den in these poor slaves, you all have heard. That high tribunal
never witneised a scene of greater interest, than when he pro
nounced the peroration of that speech — when he appealed to that
Court as a Court of " Justice" — Justice as defined two thousand
years ago to be " the constant and perpetual will to secure to every
one his own right" — Justice, we may add, as illustrated by his own
righteous life. After one of the most massive arguments ever pro
nounced in that arena of great efforts, he there took a final leave of
that Court and Bar, where his name had been enrolled as an attor
ney in 1804, and where he had once before appeared as an advo
cate in 1809, by paying a thrilling and beautiful tribute to the vir
tues of their iilustiious dead.
In 1794, at the age of twenty-seven, he entered upon that public
official career, which for the last fifty-four years occupied all his
energies. In that year, he was appointed by Washington, Minister
to the Netherlands, a post to which he was recommended by Jef
ferson, who had made his acquaintance as a youth in Paris. But
probably the immediate cause of this appointment was the publica
tion of some articles signed " Marcellus,^^ known to be from his pen,
upon those infamous appeals, made to the people of this then infant
Republic, by the French Minister, Genet, wi(.h the design of em
broiling this country in the frightful scenes of the first French Revo
lution; in which he foreshadowed that profoundly wise neutral policy,
which Washington afterwards pursued. For several years he re
mained abroad on diplomatic business. For Washington again ap
pointed him Minister to Portugal, just at the close of his administra
tion; but before he reached Lisbon, he received fi'om his father the
appointment of Minister to Prussia, and afterwards that of Commis
sioner to negotiate a commercial treaty with Sweden.
Shortly after his return to the United Stales, in 1801, he was
elected to the Senate of Massachusetts; in which body he had been
but a short time, when he was elected to the Senate of the United
Slates. While a member of that body, he was appointed Professor
of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard University; and in the recess
delivered a course of Lectures to thronged audiences, which have
since been published in two octavo volumes, and evince a thorough
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mastery of the theory of that art, which he has since so signally
illustrated in practice. While in the Senate, he gave an early proof
of that moral firmness which has since so remarkably characterized
his whole career. He took a course upon the Embargo question,
which subjected him to the censure of the Ma.ssachusetts Legisla
ture; whereupon he at once resigned his seat, nearly a year before
the expiration of his term. But no sooner was Madison installed
in the Presidential chair, than he selected Mr. Adams for the mis
sion to Russia. During the four years of his residence at St. Pe
tersburg, he is believed to have exerted an important agency in those
mighty movements to check the career of Napoleon towaids uni
versal dominion, which resulted in his exile to St. Helena; and to
such a degree did he acquire the respect and confidence of Alexan
der, as to induce that potentate to offer his mediation between Great
Britain and the United States, to terminate the then pending war.
He was shortly after placed at the head of the Commission to ne
gotiate the treaty of peace which was concluded at Ghent, in 1814.
The next year he was appointed Minister to England; where he re
mained until called home, in 1817, to take the head of Monroe's
Cabinet, as Secretary of State; which place he filled during the
whole of that administration.. At its close, there being no election
by the popular vote, he was elected to the Piesidency by the House
of Representatives. At the end of the first term, failing to be re
elected, like his great father before him, he retired, in 1829, to the
shades of Quincy. After the repose of a year, as a private citizen,
he was nine limes successively elected to represent his native Dis
trict in Congress. From that post his Heavenly Father called him
home; and the blessings of twenty millions of his countrymen have
followed his emancipated spirit to the mansions of eternal rest.
Well done, good and faithful Servant. When shall we look
upon thy like again? Who, of these twenty millions, can fill the
place which thou hast filled, or do the work which thou hast done?
Enter thou into the jot of tht Lord.
I have made the foregoing sketch as brief as possible, that we
might have a few moments to dwell upon some of the more promi
nent traits of this singular character, not yet adverted to.
In surveying such a life as has been sketched, one of the first
things whicn strikes the mind ie, the astonishing amount of labor
performed. I doubt if more work was ever crowded into a single
human life. I speak now of quantity merely, and this is Herculean.
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records of his doings, evidenced by his autograph. And here, at
home, he has been intimately connected with every important
national movement for half a century. How then was he able to
achieve so much? Did his mind conceive, or his hand execute, more
rapidly than others? Far from it. What seems so like a miracle,
was the simple effect of incessant application, directed by the most
rigid discipline. From youth to old age, all his time was employed
— the minutes, no less than the hours. Not a fragment was wasted.
He was Ihe most industrious man I have ever read of. An ancient
sage grieved that he had lost a day. He had seldom cause to grieve
at the loss of an hour. So constantly was he occupied, even when
seeming to be idle, that many considered him to be cold, dull, and
saturnine. While the truth is, that his mind was, at such moments, in
a state of fervid action, working up the mtiterials of previous enquiry.
This habit often made him seem alone in the midst of a crowd.
But let his attention be attracted from surrounding trivialities, by
some great or grave matter, and the flashing of his eye at once told
you that his mind was wide awake. In a word, my belief is, that
the true secret of his vast attainments in almost every branch of
knowledge— so vast and so various, in art, literature, and science,
as to render him a kind of intellectual vampire — is to be sought in
the fact, that his mind was intensely active, for a greater portion of
every day, throughout a very protracted life, than that of any other
eminent contemporary. But 1 began with speaking merely of the
amount and variety of his public service; in respect to which, he
confessedly stands alone among American statesmen, and probably
amons; the statesmen of the world. 1 can think of but three in
modern times, who at all approach him. These are Richelieu,
Talleyrand, and Metternich. Excepting them, I can name no one,
who has performed half as much. And these, I am glad to say, he
resembled in hardly any other respect.
And if from this quantity oi public service, we turn to the quality,
the astonishment is not diminished. Whether we regard him as a
foreign minister, a cabinet minister, a chief magistrate, a debater in
Congress, or member of a committee, he has always shown himself
a consummate master of whatever he undertook. One of his most
remarkable attributes was thoroughness. Whatever his hands found
to do, he did wilh all his might. He touched no subject which he
did not exhaust. There was nothing superficial in any of his
doings. This is the reason why he was so constantly in office; for
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trary, office always solicited him, because he was known to be the
fittest man. To this remark, throughout the long list of his prefer
ments, I believe there is no exception. I do not forget that he was
once charged with using undue means to secure the Presidency —
nor that this charge was made the pretext for threatening, " that if
his administration should be as pure as that of the angels in heaven,"
it should be overthrown. But this charge has long since been pro
nounced and admitted to be a "stale and loathed calumny;" while
the ermine purity of that administration has now become a fact of
history, looming out ever brighter as we recede from it; although
the threat was executedl
Tinrie would fail me to comment upon, or even to enumerate, the
published writings of Mr. Adains — his state papers, orations, lec
tures, essays, speeches, and arguments. Few men have left more
enduring memorials, had we seen all now.* But there is reason to
believe the greatest is behind. It is known that from the com
mencement of his public life, he has kept a regular and copious
Diary, in which he has noted down his impressions of men and
events as they occurred. And when we consider the keenness of his
sagacity, and the caustic power of his pen, we may safely anticipate
from this Diary, when it shall see the light, such an intellectual
treat as the world seldom enjoys. My belief is, that it will be
seized upon wilh greater avidity than any work which has ever
*I take from the Literary World the following list:
Of the published writings of Mr. Adams, aside from his state paper's, official cor
respondence, and speeches, which would make many volumes, the following may bo
named :
1. Oration at Boston, 1793; 2. Answer to Paine's Rights of Man, 1793; 3. Ad
dress to the Members of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society; 4. Letters on
Silesia; 5. Letters on Silesia, 1804; 6. Inangural Oration at Harvard Colle.re, 1806;
7. Letters tn H. G. Otis, in R ply to Timothy Pickering, 1808; 8. Review of the
Works of Fisher Ames, 1809; 9. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, two volumes,
1810; 10. Report on Weights and Measures, 18-21; 11. Oration at Washington,
1821: 1-2. Duplicate Letters; the Fisheries and the Mississippi. 1822; 13. Oration to
the Citizens of Quincy, 1831; 14. Oration on the Death of Jnmes Monroe, 1831;
15. Dermot McMorrosjh, or the Conquest of Ireland, 1832; 16. Letters to Edward
Livingston, on Free Masonry. 1833; 17. Letters to Wm. L. Stone, on the Entered
Apprentice's Oath, 1833; 18. Oration on the Life and Clia'acter of Lafavette, 1835;
19. Or.ition on the Life and Character of James Madison, 1836; 20. The Characters
of Shakspeare, 1837; 21. Oration delivered at Newburyport, 1837; 22. Letters to
his Constituenis of the Twelfth Cnnjressional District of Massachusetts, 1837; 23.
The Jubilee of the Constitution, 1839; 24. A Discourse on Education, delivered at
Braintree, 1840; 25. An Address at the Observatory, Cincinnati, 1843.
Among the unpublished works of 'Mr. Adams, besides his Diary, which extends
over half a century, and would proijibly make some two dozen stout octavos, are
Memoirs of the Earlier Public and Private Life of John Adams, second President of
the United States, in three volumes' Reports and Speeches on Public Affairs-
Poems, including two new cantos of Dermot McMorrogh; n Translation of Oberon
and numerous Essays and Discourses. We hope the accomplished son of the
deceased statesman will cause a complete edition of all these works to be issued
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come from the American press. And O the secrets that book will
tell! Let those burrowing politicians, who think they have effec
tually covered up their tracks from public scrutiny, hide their dimin
ished heads, when this Diary shall speak. For no denial or subter
fuge will then avail. The world will believe what such a Witness
wrote down at the time as fact, in spite of all contradiction; and
the secret political history of the last fifty years, will come forth
with the stamp of unquestioned authenticity.
The manners of Mr-. Adams were the extreme of republican
simplicity. He seemed, by his carriage, to be wholly unconscious
that he was a great man. Meet him where you might, he exacted
no deference; but treated all well-behaved persons as his equals.
Even while President, he made his journeys with no parade what
ever. He was habitually grave and serious in his demeanor; but
among kindred spirits, when public cares did not press upon him,
could unbend himself to the most genial and delightful companion
ship. In mere fashionable society he took little or no interest, and
often wore the appearence of entire abstraction. When in a talka
tive mood, he had an inexhaustible fund of personal anecdote, which
made his conversation as instructive as it was entertaining. But he
never monopolized conversation, and required rather to be drawn
out, than took the lead. For foppery and pretension of every sort,
he had a supreme contempt, which he did not always entirely conceal ;
yet he was as far as possible from being an ill-natured man. Modest
merit he delighted lo find out and encourage. He never courted
any one. While always ready to pay or receive a graceful and well
deserved compliinent. he despised flattery, and would neither use
nor suffer it. On the whole, his manners were rather the reverse of
fascinating. But this is partly owing to the gi-ave and severe studies,
which so absorbed his thoughts. And to make up for this, he was
a sincere and earnest philanthropist— an ardent lover of his whole
race. His occasional discourses are full of the spirit of human broth
erhood. But it was for the oppressed, that his sympathies were
most deeply excited. To injustice, under all forms, he was a stern,
almost a vindictive foe; and his severe denunciations have led some
to consider him a hard man— implacable in his enmities— and not
sufficiently tempering justice wilh mercy. There may be some
grains of trulh in this. He was born and reared under circum
stances so auspicious, and had lead so pure a life, that he may not
always have made a sufficient allowance for a less favored lot. Still
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only their hateful deeds. Had he left no memorials but those which
demonstrate his deep compassion for the slave — always manifested
with an austere regard, however, to the rights of the master secured
to him by the Constitution — posterity would have no scruples in
pronouncing him a philanthropist. For no mere politician would
utter the words, and do the deeds, and bear the obloquy, which he
has done — at least no politician of the most recent type ; — because
the popular breeze does not yet set in that direction.
We have seen that Mi'. Adams was educated for the Bar, but
chiefly withdrawn from it at the end of seven years. And I have
heard him express doubts whether his life would not have been
happier, if he had remained in that profession. That he might have
attained the highest rank, both as a Jurist and Advocate, there is no
room to doubt. For a Jurist, he possessed a piercing discrimina
tion, which seized at a glance the nicest distinctions; and a tena-
ciousness of memory, which, coupled with his untiring industry,
would have made his mind a perfect magazine of precedents. And
for an Advocate, he possessed a copiousness of diction, which sum
moned the best words at will; a clearness of method, which made
his logic look like demonstration; a vividness of imagination, which
could illuminate and enliven the darkest and dryest subjects; a
power of invective, before which knavery must have quailed; and
a weight of character, which always must have a commanding
influence both with Judge and Jury. But why speculate on this
point? Who has not heard of h\m as ^'- the old man eloquent?" It
was, however, his destiny to become greatly conspicuous in con
nexion with only the two highest branches of law — Constitu
tional and International — and of these he was an acknowledged
master. His views of the Constitution have been characterized as ultra liber
al. Audit is true, I believe, that he did go farther, in this respect, than
any other eminent statesman. Whether he was right or wrong in
this, I shall not now enquire. If wrong, the error was at least a
generous one. For most assuredly, if the words of the Constitu
tion would warrant his construction — if there really were granted,
by that instrument, to the federal government, the broad and sub
stantive power to promote the ^'- general welfare^'' in all useful ways, —
whether it be by constructing works of internal improvement, — or
by creating and endowing a National University or Observatory —
or by doing any other great and good thing, tending to the manifest
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to have from any other source — I say, most assuredly, such a con
stitution would be a far more efficient and beneficent instrument for
building up, and beautifying, and blessing a nation, than one which
contained no such general power. And, may I not add, that such a
constitution would be more worthy of the sages who framed it?
For they were as patriotic as they were wise.
''Great were the hearts, and strong the minds,
"Of those who framed, in high debate,
"The immortal league of love that binds
"Our fair, broad empire, State with State!''
But it was in the department of International Law, that Mr.
Adams labored most; and here — though I wish to avoid all extrava
gance of panegyric — I feel no scruple in saying, that he had no living
rival. Before he had been engaged four years in Diplomacy,
Washington spoke of him "as the most valuable public character we
have abroad, and the ablest of all our diplomatic corps." If this
were deserved then, what might not have been said, when he had
more than quadrupled his diplomatic experience? The truth is, that
so far as our International relations are made certain by treaties,
they are, to a very great extent, the actual work of his hand; and
so far as they remain unwritten, and resting upon those eternal
principles of right, which are recognized throughout Christendom as
the law of nations, it is enough to say, that these subjects have been
pre-eminently the study of his life. As a Publicist, then, whether
we regard his astonishingly minute acquaintance with the actual rela
tions which have been established among the great powers of the
world; or his profound study of those principles and precedents
which must determine those relations in any future contingency not
provided for by treaty — in either aspect, his fame will be as enduring
as the nations themselves.
But that portion of his life which I most love to contemplate, is
the last seventeen years, during which he was a member of the
lower house of Congress. When after a most brilliant public career
of thirty-six years, during which he had successively filled nearly all
the high offices in the gift of his country — when he had just left the
highest elective office in the world, at the age of sixty-three, an age
at which most men wish and need repose — when he condescended
to step down from this proud eminence — give up the dignified retire
ment in which the evening of his life might have glided so tranquilly
away — take his place in that arena where embryo statesmen usually
seek to flesh their maiden swords — and there, asking no favors on
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bate, on equal terms, for seventeen years, with every champion who
chose to encounter him, without once being overthi-own — this por
tion of his life, having no siinilitude in that of any other American,
to my mind, places a more than Corinlliian capital upon the already
stately column of his glory. And when I think of the stormy times
upon which our beloved country may now be entering, in which his
venerable presence and counsel will be wanting, I cannot help
recalling those strong lines by Scott upon the younger Pitt:
" Hadst thou but lived, though stripp'd of power,
" A watchman on the lonely tower,
" Thy thrilling trump had roused the land,
" When fraud or danger were at hand;
" By thee, as by the beacon light,
"Our pilots had kept course ariglit ;
"As some proud column, though alone,
" Thy strength had propp'd the tottering throne.
"Now is the stately column broke,
" The beacon liuht is quenched in smoke,
" The trumpet's silver sound is still,
" The warder tilent on the hill I
" O think how, to hi'! latest clay,
" When death, just hovering, claimed his prey,
" Wilh Palinure's unaltered mond,
" Firm at his dangerous post he stood ;
" Each call for needful rest repell'd,
" With dying hand the rudder held,
"Till, in his fall, with fateful sway,
" The steerage of the realm gave way."
Another topic which I should be glad to dwell upon, but can onlv
mention, is, his reverence for the freedom of opinion. This pr-e-
cious right, which he always claimed for himself, he scrupulously
respected in others. As was beautifully said by one of his eulogists
in Congress, " He crushed no heart beneath the rude grasp of pro
scription; he left no heritage of widows' cries and orphans' tears."
This frightful doctrine of proscription for opinion's sake — so sure to
make politicians hypocrites, and office holders slaves, and, therefore
so fraught wilh danger to our liberties — finds no countenance in his
great example. He recognized no party fealty which put fetters
on the mind. Thought is free. What he thought, he would and
did speak; and he trusted no m.m who would not do the same.
I have already spoken of Mr. Adams as a Christian. I may here
add that he was so from profound study. His critical knowledge of
the Bible fell litde short of that of the most accomplished divines.
In a letter to his son, written at St. Petersburgh in 181 1, and first
published since his death, he says:
"I have myself, for many years, made ita practice to I'ead through
« the Bible once every year. * * My custom is, to read
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" my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me
" the most suitable manner of beginning the day. * * * In
« what light so ever we regard it, [the Bible] whether with reference
" to Revelation, to Literature, to History, or to Morality, it is an
" invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue."
I have made these quotations to show the source to which he went
for the wisdom which he evinced. Richelieu is represented to
have said, "For private life, Scripture the guide; for public. Ma.
chiavel." And this has been the acted, if not the uttered maxim, of
many a statesman besides Richelieu. Is it not the prevailing maxim
now, both with European and American statesmen? Do they not
hold reasons of state, and reasons of right, to be different things?
In a word, is the Bible the statesman's guide? Is the moral code of
the politician the same which he himself would follow as a private
citizen? Alas, we know that it is not. But with Mr. Adams there
was no difference. In public as in private life, he always consulted
the Bible, and never Machiavel. I do not, of course, mean to say
that he always acted rightly. But he endeavoured so to act. He
studied and he prayed so to act. This was not his profession
merely, but his daily practice. He aimed to be a Christian states
man. And I regard this as the resplendent glory of his life. No
earthly consideration ever could or did make him swerve from what
he thought to be his duty. For this I reverence him, and my
reverence is all the deeper — amounting to hero-worship — because,
in this respect, he stood almost alone. " Modern degeneracy had
not reached him." He recognized no distinction between honesty
and policy. To the wrong nothing could lure him — from the right
nothing frighten him.
Who does not remember, with a thrill of admiration, how that
venerable old man — that white-haired public servant — when, in
order to vindicate the sacred right of petition, he had offered one
which was obnoxious to a fiery portion of the bouse, who forthwith
poured upon him a whole vocabular)' of vile abuse, and even moved
his expulsion — yes, moved the expulsion of John Quincy Adams
from the House of Representatives, where he occupied a position as
far above them, as the summit of Olympus is above the vale be
neath; who does not remember how he stood there in the calm
majesty of truth and justice, a moral Samson among Philistines — a
Titan among Pigmies — immoveable as a rock, lashed by the angry
surge  smiling with that ineffable mixture of scorn and pity, which
only the truly great can feel, at the puny efforts made to disgrace
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him; and, at length, when the time to speak arrived, making one of
those triumphant vindications of his conduct, which from that time
forth forever has consecrated the right of every human being to be
heard by a respectful petition. Not Ajax defying the storm — not
Marius among the ruins of Carthage— not Socrates in his dungeon —
not Cincinnatus, nor Coriolanus, contemning the rabble — not the
Roman Senators in the presence of Brennus — may 1 say, not Paul
before Agrippa — presented a scene for the painter grander than
this. It was Right defying Might — Justice proclaiming its title to
Supremacy — Faith fastening itself to the Rock of Ages — Truth
vindicating its eternal sway. Tell me not of Chatham's hours of
'• Supreme Dominion " over the House of Lords. Never was there
an hour of dominion like this over a deliberative Assembly.
Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida. •
Then and there did John Quincy Adams approve himself the moral
hero of this age.
To sum up, then, this very imperfect sketch of the life and char
acter of John Quincy Adams, thus much, I think, may be truly said.
In the beginning, Nature was most bountiful to him; for she gave him
— all she had to give — a sound mind in a sound body. His oppor
tunities for education at home and abroad, were the very best the
world afforded. These great resources at the outset, he husbanded
through life, as carefully as does a miser his gold; and thus laid up a
mighty store of knowledge. Rocked in the cradle of the Revolution,
he grew up an ardent devotee of Liberty; and, consistent through
out, a determined opponent of Slavery. Called very early by
Washington into public service, and found, on the first trial, to be
competent and trustworthy, he could never thenceforth be spared
from that service; and he filled all the high offices of his country so
well, that it is difficult to name one who has filled either of them
better. Reared from childhood to look to the Bible as the only sure
guide to duty, his whole life, public and private, has been marked
by the humility, integrity, justice, and truth of a Christian; and to
the thoughtful observer exhibits a "daily beauty," by the side of
which most other lives look "ugly." Acting always with upright
intentions, he knew no fear but that of doing wrong; and through
* A just man, and firm of purpose, whose solid soul could not be shaken, either
by the threats of a mob, or the frowns of a tyrant.

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many trials and vicissitudes, was always "faithful found among the
faithless." Deeply sensible of the importance of time, he made the
most of every moment; and judiciously governing all his appetites,
he preserved his faculties in full vigor to a ripe old age. For all
these reasons, the life which has just closed so gloriously for himself,
while it has already been one of exceeding, almost unsurpassed use
fulness to his country, should be in the future as an example and a
model to us and to posterity — one of ever increasing usefulness and
glory, so long as History shall be faithful to its highest trust.
In conclusion — We are usually admonished that the most solemn
lesson taught by such an event as this which we now commemorate,
is " the nothingness of life" — " what shadows we are, and what sha
dows we pursue." But I cannot so regard it. On the contrary, I
have never been so profoundly and solemnly impressed with a con
viction of the infinite importance which may be given to the life of
man on earth, by a faithful and conscientious devotion of all its
precious moments to the nurture and development of the soul's
highest faculties. Who shall say that the life of John Quincy Adams
was a shadow, pursuing shadows? If so, there is nothing substantial
on earth — "nothing serious in mortality." But no: His great ex
ample should teach us, more than ever before, to realize the true
dignity of man, as conceived by the greatest of poets:
"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infi
nite in facultiesl In form and moving, how express and admirable!
In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a God!"
And could that voice, now hushed in death, which often spoke in
poetry on earth, now be heard from the grave, I could well imagine
it to say — " Life is real ! Life is earnest !
" And the grave is not the goal ;
" Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
" Was not spoken of the soul.
# » * »
" In the world's broad field of battle,
" In the bivouac of Life,
" Be not like dumb, driven cattle,
" Be a hero in the strife !
» « » *
" Lives of great men all remind us
" We can make our lives sublime,
" And departing, leave behind us
"Foot-prints on the sands of time ;
" Foot-prints, that perhaps another,
" Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
" A forlorn and shipwrecked brother
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" Let us then be up and doing,
" With a heart for any fate ;
"Still achieving, still pursuing,
" Learn to labor and to wait."
And having thus spoken of the work to be done on earth, I could
further imagine that voice to say, of a preparation for death —
"So live, that, when thy summons comes lo join
" The innumerable caravan, that moves
" To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
" His chamber in the silent halls of death,
" Thou go not, like the quarry-slavo at night,
"Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed
" By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
" Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
" About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."

APPENDIX.

The following is an abridged account of the proceedings which led to, and the
ceremonies which accompanied the preceding Oration.
TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO MR. ADAMS.
At a meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati, held at the Merchants' Exchange, on
Monday evening, the 28th February, 1848, to consider what measures should be
adopted expressive of the feelings of this community on the death of John Quincy
Adams, Henry Starr was chosen President, and C. D. Coffin, Secretary.
On motion of N. Guilford, seconded by W. Greene, it was
Resolved, That a Committee of ten be appointed by this meeting, to report to an
adjourned meeting, to be held at this place on Thursday evening next, the most
proper proceedings to be taken by the citizens of Cincinnati, to express their sense
of the public services of the late John Quincv Adams, and of the national loss occa
sioned by his sudden death.
And thereupon the President announced Mr. Guilford, Mr. Greene, Mr. Storer
Mr. Walker, Mr. Burgoyne, Mr. 0. M. Mitchel, Mr. Matthews, Mr. G. Yeatmani
Mr. Meader, and Mr. E. P. Langdon, that Committee.
And the meeting adjourned until Tuesday evening, 2d March, half past 7 o'clock.
HENRY STARR, President.
C. D. Coffin, Secretary.

Thursday Evenins, 2d Makch, 1848.
The citizens of Cincinnati assembled at the Merchants' Exchange, pursuant to
adjournment. Mr. Guilford, from the committee heretofore appointed, made the following report-
Whereas John Quincy Adams died at the Capitol of this Union on the 23d day of

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February instant, in tho 81st year of his age — having been actively engaged in the
public service of his country for more than half a century — having successively
filled, with unsurpassed integrity and ability, nearly all the high offices in every
department of the National Government — being at the time of his death one of the
Representatives in Congress frora the State of Massachusetts, a post which he had
uninterruptedly occupied for 17 years— and having by an energy that never faltered,
and an industry that never tired, made such vast and various attainments, as a Phi
losopher, Statesman, Civilian and Scholar, that it may well be doubted, whether, in
regard to this rare and wonderful combination of excellence, he left, in the wide
world, an equal behind him; and
Whereas it becomes an enlightened and Christian people — while they bow in
humble submission to that decree of the Almighty, which has called this great and
good man from the field of his earthly toils, to join the great and good of all lands
and times in the assembly of the Just made Perfect in Heaven — at the same time, to
do what in them lies to draw from the sublime example of such a life and death,
the impressive lessons which they ought to teach: Therefore be it
Resolved, By the citizens of Cincinnati, in public meeting assembled,
I. That we all commemorate the death ot John Quincy Adams by appropriate
public ceremonies, among which shall be a Procession and an Oration with Music
and Religious Exercises, on the 22d day of March instant, to be conducted by the
persons and in the manner which shall be provided for by the following Committees,
to be appointed by the Chairman :
1. A Committee of Finance, to consist of five persons.
2. A Committee on the Procession, to consist of five persons.
3. A Committee on Music, to consist of three persons.
4. A Committee on the Building, to consist of three persons.
S. A Committee on Religious Exercises, to consist of three persons.
6. A Committee on the Oration, to consist of five persons.
Which Committee shall respectively have power to fill vacancies, and do all acts
and things coming within their several spheres.
II. That the Chairman of the several Committees before mentioned, together with
the President and Secretary of this meeting, shall constitute a General Committee of
Arrangements and Supervision.
Which Report was approved and the preamble and resolutions passed.
Committee of Finance : Messrs. Geo. Carlisle, Griffin Taylor, Robert Crawford
E. M. Gregory, and E. S. Haines.
On Procession : Messrs. Geo. Graham, E. Hulse, W. Wiswell, Thomas J. Weaver,
and A. M. Mitchell.
On Music : T. B. Mason, Victor Williams, and W. D. Gallagher.
On Building : Messrs. Samuel Lewis, Christopher Smith, and John Burgoyne.
On Religious Exercises : Messrs. John P. Foote, Samuel W. Pomeroy, and William
NefF. On the Oration : Messrs. N. Guilford, E. P. Langdon, John C. Wright, John D.
Jones, and Daniel F. Meader.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in all the city papers.
Adjourned. H. STARR, President.
C. D. Coffin, Secretary.

The Committee of Arrangements adopted the following order of procession
and services for the funeral solemnities on Wednesday, ihe 22d of March, to commem
orate the death of John Quincy Adams.
The procession was under the the direction of
GEORGE GRAHAM, Gkand Marshal.

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ASSISTANT MARSHALS.
COL. A. M. MITCHELL, THOS. J. WEAVER, WM. WISWELL,
M. P. TAYLOR, MILES GREENWOOD, E. HULSE,
MAJ. CHAS. SARGEANT, GEN. M. S. WADE, O. M. MITCHEL.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
The U. S. Troops of the Newport Garrison,
Volunteer Companies,
Field and Staff Officers of the Militia,
U. S. Officers of the Army and Navy,
Revolutionary Soldiers,
Band of Music,
Orator and Officiating Clergy in carriages.
H Ij A R S E,
Drawn by ten horses with grooms in Turkish costumes.
Pall Bearers in open carriages,
Committee of Arrangements,
City Council of Cincinnati,
Mayor and Municipal Officers of Cincinnati,
Mayor and City Council of Newport,
Mayor and City Council of Covington,
Trustees and Visiters of Common Schools.
Professors of Colleges and Teachers of Schools.
Band of Music.
Fire Department of Covington,
Fire Department of Cincinnati,
Band of Music,
Order of U. S. of A.
Temperance Societies,
Band of Music,
Citizens in Procession,
Governors and Ex-Governors of States,
And other State Officers,
New England Society,
Members of the Bar,
Judges and Officers of Courts,
Aslronomical Society.
CEREMONIES AT WESLEY CHAPEL.
1. Dirge; words by Mrs. R. S. Nichols.
Solemn tolled the "passing-bell;"
Gates of death were lifted high ;
Dirges in an anthem-swell,
Rose from troubled earth to sky.
Poet, veil thy crowned head !
Statesman, droop thy lofty brow !
Like a widow, o'er her dead.
Bends a weeping nation now.
Torn from human hopes and tears.
One, a country's lawful pride.
Gray in glory! gray in years!
Nobly lived — most nobly died!

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On the field where he had fought,
Battling for the wronged — oppressed ;
Where his noblest deeds were wrought, —
There he fell, in armor dressed.
Lay his helmet by his side —
Write, " Salvation unto man,"
On the circlet, true and tried.
That a world may read the plan.
"Sword of Spirit!" take thy rest-
Palsied now the wielder's arm :
" Shield of Faith'' upon his breast.
Death, his soul might not alarm.
Never more, shall home or hall
Yield an echo to his voice ;
Never more, shall freemen's call
Make his Patriot-heart rejoice.
Great in council ! gray in years !
On the field of his renown,
He, despite a nation's tears.
Laid his costly laurels down.
Solemn tolled the "passing-bell,'' —
Gates of death were lifted high —
Dirges, in an anthem-swell,
Rose from troubled earth to sky.
Poet, veil thy crowned head —
Statesman, droop thy lofty brow —
Like a widow, o'er her dead.
Bends a weeping nation now !
2. Prater; by Rev. Dr. Beecher.
3. Htmn; words by John Quincy Adams; read by Rev. Mr.
Magoon. How swift, alas, the moments fly !
How rush the years along!
Scarce here, yet gone already by —
The burden of a song.
See childhood, youth, and manhood pass.
And age, with furrowed brow ;
Time was — time shall be — but alas!
Where, where in time is now?
Time is the measure of but change ;
No present hour is found ;
The past, the future, fill the range
Of time's unceasing round.
Where, then, is now ? In realms above.
With God's atoning Lamb,
In regions of eternal love.
Where sits enthroned I AM!
Then, pilgrim, let thy joys and fears
On time no longer lean ;
But henceforth all thy joys and fears
From earth's affections wean.
To God let grateful accents rise ;
With truth, with virtue live;
So all the bliss that 'time denies.
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4. Reading of the Scriptures, ;by Hev. Mr. Perkins.
5. Chorus; words by Sir Henry Wotton, A. D. 1600.
How happy 1.= he born or taught.
Who serveth not another's will ;
Whose armor is his honest thought.
And simpfe truth his highest skill —
Whose passions not his masters are;
Whose soul is still prepared for death;
Not tied unto the world with care
Of Prince's ear or vulgar breath :
Who God doth lats. and early pray
More of his grace than goods to lend,
Aiid walks with man from day to day,
As with a brother and a friend.
This man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ;
Lord of nimsetf, though not of lands.
And having notbing, yet hath all.
6. Okation; by T. Walker, Esq.
7. Funeral Anthem; words by James W. Ward.
Weep not for him who now,
From the grave waking,
Stahds where archangels bow.
Glory partaking ;
Finished his mortal race.
Duty completed,
Filled with each heavenly grace,
To the jnst meted; —
There with expanding soul,
Where the life-waters roll,
To the eternal goal
Joyfully greeted.
Yet when a great good man
Rests from his labor.
Working the Christian plan.
Good to his neighbor.
True hearts must mourn the loss
Grieved and forsaken.
Bearing the Master's cross.
Firm and unshaken;
Faith growing stronger then,
Looking for help again,
Since from the laboringmen
One has been taken.
OJThbu, the only Wise,
Look-from' thy dweUing,
Pardon our selfish sighsi-
Painfully swelling.
Fields for -the harvest white.
Round us are lyings-
Help «s with holy might,
Dangers defying ;
On with the work to gd.
While thou dost life 'bestow ;
To every human wo
Some balm applying.
8. Concluding Prater; by Rev. Bishop Morris.
9. Sentence; " His body is buried in peace."
10. Benediction; by Rev. G. W. Gillespie.

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3. CAPASSO BARTOLOMMEpi'Sui Diurnalidi Matteo da /' ^^: •
' - .. Giovenazzd, nuova ediz.riveduta e accresciuta dall' A. » 1,20
.4. ZENATTI ALBINO," Arrigo Testa "e i primordi della lirica ' ¦
r.,<.' , itaiiana, nuova ediz. riveduta e accresciuta dall'A. . » 1,00^ ,
'i'. PARIS GASTON, I racconti orienlali nella lelleratura fran-
. ; cese, traduz. di M. Menghini aiitoiizzata dall'A. . . » 0, 80
"6. SAINTE-BEUVE, Fauriel e Manzoni — Leopardi. . . »1, 30,'
•7. CARLYLE TOMMASO, Danle e Shakespeare . . . . »0, 60 ^
8. "PAEIS GASTON, La leggenda. di Saladino ..'... V i, 00 ¦*
9. CAPASSb BARTOLOMMEO, Ancora i Diurnali di Mat- ""-"
'.;;-, . teo da Giovenazzo ^ . . . ..; ".' . . .' r . . . . » 0, 60 .¦ ~
;lo! CAMPORI GIUSEPPE, Notizie per la viladi L. Ariosto. » 1,20
11. CARDUCCI GIOSUE, Su I'Aminla di T. Tasso.Saggi '" '
'>.._tre. Con una Pastorale inedita di G. B. Giraldi Cinthio. » 1, 20 ~
12.CIASiP0LINI ERMANNOJ La prima' tragedia regolare *_ \ •
della' Letteratura Italiana . .-.....'..¦..'. »0,50 .
13. CASINI TOMMASO, La giovinezza e I' esilio di Terenzio
' . Mamiani.,;r . . . . .-. . . s .>..,... . .»1,00/.
U. ZUMBINI BONAyENTURA, II Ninfale Fiesolano di G
..'^' Boccaccio, nuova ediz. riveduta e accresciuta dall'A » 0, lO
15. KERBAKER MICHELE, Shakespeare;e Goethe nei versi . ,«..
, >.- di Vincenzo Monti. . . . ... !';:. .-'.' .;•-. ^0,50* ¦-*
16-17. DE AMICIS VINCENZO, L' Imitazione Lalina nella
""¦. Commedia Italiana del XVI secolo, nuova edizionerne <
-' data dairautore . . .", . .'.... . . . . . >1, 20 >
18. .JEANROY ALFREDO, La/Poesia francese in Italia nei
periodo delle origini. Traduzione italiana riveduta dtl
^- M'Autore con note e iutroduzione di (jliorgio Rossi » 1,00
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