Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William A. Duncan (a Representative from Pennsylvania): Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-eighth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 - 36 Seiten |
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William Cogswell (Late a ... 1895-1897 United States 54th Cong Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 36 - The question is on agreeing to the resolution submitted by the Senator from Georgia.
Seite 17 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Seite 3 - Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the Senate do now adjourn.
Seite 19 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Seite 29 - ... boldest, most unscrupulous executive genius in Boss Tweed, who, recognizing the opportunity of the crook in government by party through convention nominations, declared he did not care who elected the candidates so long as he had the power to nominate the ticket.
Seite 8 - All my life long, I have beheld with most respect the man Who knew himself, and knew the ways before him, And from amongst them chose considerately, With a clear foresight, not a blindfold courage ; And having chosen, with a steadfast mind Pursued his purposes.
Seite 31 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away : So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, • Neither shall his place know him any more.
Seite 26 - August, 1859, was admitted to the bar, and at once entered upon the active practice of his profession.
Seite 14 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 6 - Some qualities she carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual, as too costly to perpetuate. But I notice also that they may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them and bakes them into her porcelain.