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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... friends , with a few words of greeting . He complained of great fatigue , but of no pain , except when he moved of his own strength . He was , he said , tired in every nerve and muscle , even in his bones . He wanted rest , and begged for.
... friends , with a few words of greeting . He complained of great fatigue , but of no pain , except when he moved of his own strength . He was , he said , tired in every nerve and muscle , even in his bones . He wanted rest , and begged for.
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... friend , " You never will . " At a still later moment , and about fifteen minutes before Mr. SUMNER died , giving his ... friends were bathing his face and lips , and before he could be laid back upon his pillow , the action of the heart ...
... friend , " You never will . " At a still later moment , and about fifteen minutes before Mr. SUMNER died , giving his ... friends were bathing his face and lips , and before he could be laid back upon his pillow , the action of the heart ...
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... friends and associates were encouraged to hope he might be spared to us for some years longer . The shock of his death comes upon us suddenly , and when least expected . The last enemy of man has finally triumphed , and our great orator ...
... friends and associates were encouraged to hope he might be spared to us for some years longer . The shock of his death comes upon us suddenly , and when least expected . The last enemy of man has finally triumphed , and our great orator ...
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... friend to take care of the civil rights bill , the passage of which he had much at heart . Thus he went out from among us , with his last moment of conscious- ness still pleading , as he had so often and so eloquently plead through many ...
... friend to take care of the civil rights bill , the passage of which he had much at heart . Thus he went out from among us , with his last moment of conscious- ness still pleading , as he had so often and so eloquently plead through many ...
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... friend of the friendless . the wide world over . Well might we be distrustful for the future , as , one by one , the men who have upheld our country's honor and fame , faint or fall ; were we not assured that others , brave and true ...
... friend of the friendless . the wide world over . Well might we be distrustful for the future , as , one by one , the men who have upheld our country's honor and fame , faint or fall ; were we not assured that others , brave and true ...
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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.