...centuries to come, our Republic -will continue to live, and hold its high place among the nations as " The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." IV. ^popular lEtmtaticm. EXTRACTS FllOM THE LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE AHD THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS, JULT 13,...

...an express train, only stopping two or three times a-day to coal and take in water; and I, albeit " the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," am " birled " down the " ringing grooves of change," without time to see or think. To think? ay, there's...

...centuries to come our Republic will continue to live and hold its high place among the nations as " ' The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time.' " From our Republic and its future, we turn aside to gather in a literary scrap, an address on Burns,...

...than the Christian child. * * * * # Mated with a squalid savage, what to me were sun or clime ? I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever...

...pleasures, like a beast with lower r>ains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze...

...(1960); J. Saville, 'The Welfare State', in The New Reasoner, no. 3 (1957). Ill LOOKING BACKWARDS I am the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time. Tennyson In order to estimate its [the nineteenth century's] full importance and grandeur ... we must...

...a certain end shall come up later. Take, to fix our ideas, the two verses from 'Locksley Hall': "I, the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time/' and — 'Tor I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs." Why is it that when we recite...

...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! Mated with a squalid savage - what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time I that rather held it better men should perish one by one. Than that earth should stand at gaze like...

...fairly kicked out of existence. To the white man then, the philosopher, poet, orator, historian—to him "the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," it matters little whether donkeyism or negroism predominate; either, to him, would be extinction. To...

...weakening the inference to which we are irresistibly led by Geology, History, and Archaeology that Man, The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of Time, is a very much nobler and exalted animal than the shivering and naked savage whose squalid and ghastly...