A Memorial of Charles Sumner ..."1 carbon print of a photographic portrait of Sumner by Allen and Rowell, Boston ... one of only a few that are identified by this firm."--Hanson Collection Catalogue, p. 49. |
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... followed a more prudent course . They had even counselled the Massachusetts Senator that his sharp methods of contro- versy were impolitic and perhaps unsafe . But he did not desist . He returned denunciation for denunciation and scorn ...
... followed a more prudent course . They had even counselled the Massachusetts Senator that his sharp methods of contro- versy were impolitic and perhaps unsafe . But he did not desist . He returned denunciation for denunciation and scorn ...
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... followed . Thus separated from all personal controversies and personal interests , the country would have accepted his judgment and followed his example , knowing well that when he stood alone , with scarcely a man to back him , and ...
... followed . Thus separated from all personal controversies and personal interests , the country would have accepted his judgment and followed his example , knowing well that when he stood alone , with scarcely a man to back him , and ...
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... followed ; then Neumarck's Choral : " To thee , O Lord , I yield my spirit , Who break'st in love this mortal chain ; My life I but from thee inherit , And death becomes my chiefest gain ; In thee I live , in thee I die Content , for ...
... followed ; then Neumarck's Choral : " To thee , O Lord , I yield my spirit , Who break'st in love this mortal chain ; My life I but from thee inherit , And death becomes my chiefest gain ; In thee I live , in thee I die Content , for ...
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Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Sumner Memorial. Then followed the Burial Psalms , the choir singing the responses : - - Lord , let me know my end and the number of my days ; that I may know how frail I am ...
Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Sumner Memorial. Then followed the Burial Psalms , the choir singing the responses : - - Lord , let me know my end and the number of my days ; that I may know how frail I am ...
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... followed these Selections from Scripture : - The burden of the valley of vision . What aileth thee now , that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops ? Thou that art full of stirs , a tumultuous city . Help , Lord ! for the faithful ...
... followed these Selections from Scripture : - The burden of the valley of vision . What aileth thee now , that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops ? Thou that art full of stirs , a tumultuous city . Help , Lord ! for the faithful ...
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Page 133 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 80 - Behold, I shew you a mystery : we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: (for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality...
Page 82 - ... who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labors. And we beseech thee, that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 84 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 81 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts : shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers ; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee.
Page 94 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2.
Page 309 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 76 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.
Page 77 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; Hold not thy peace at my tears : For I am a stranger with thee, And a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Page 88 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.