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Hace 5 días · Olver Wendell Holmes was just 21 when he penned his most memorable poem. It certainly saved the USS Constitutioni, but that salvation took 100 years. One of the nation's best loved patriotic poems first appeared in 1830 when the victorious frigate was only 33 years old and headed for the scrap heap.
Hace 5 días · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is one of the central figures of American legal history. His fingerprints are all over virtually every core subject in the doctrinal canon. My Jurisprudence students know that one of his key contributions is the so-called “bad man” theory of the law. From his famous 1897 address, “The Path of […]
Hace 1 día · Great God Our King. America has always been my favorite patriotic song. Written by a Baptist minister, Samuel Francis, and set to the tune, ironically, of God Save the Queen, the song was first performed on July 4, 1831 at Park Street Church in Boston. Near the end of his life, Francis was proposed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, for an honorary ...
Hace 6 días · The cornerstone of the building was laid on November 28, 1888, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes composed a dedicatory poem for the occasion. The library, which cost $2.5 million to build,...
Hace 4 días · Today, the Constitution is in drydock, a living symbol of America's naval success. The ship was scheduled to be destroyed in the years after the War of 1812, but a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes built up public sentiment for the old warship and encouraged Congress to act to protect the symbol of American might.
Hace 2 días · Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes. Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Hace 3 días · Robert Todd Lincoln, the president’s son enjoyed her company. Years earlier while at school, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a future Supreme Court Justice, wrote to Lucy. Holmes asked Lucy whether she had scented her letter with a perfume called "Kiss Me Quick," and if so, did she intend he should do so?
