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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... PRESIDENT : There are times in the experience of most men when , overtaken by sudden bereavement , they feel the poverty of human speech to express emotions which struggle for utterance . This is as true of com- munities as of ...
... PRESIDENT : There are times in the experience of most men when , overtaken by sudden bereavement , they feel the poverty of human speech to express emotions which struggle for utterance . This is as true of com- munities as of ...
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... President , are we all mourners to - day . The State he has done so much to honor , will receive all that was mortal of him , and lay him tenderly to rest upon her bosom , amid the tears and benedictions . of all the people . Mr. President ...
... President , are we all mourners to - day . The State he has done so much to honor , will receive all that was mortal of him , and lay him tenderly to rest upon her bosom , amid the tears and benedictions . of all the people . Mr. President ...
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... President of the Senate , having called Mr. BAILEY to the Chair , made the following address : — Mr. PRESIDENT : The sad and startling event which has suddenly arrested the attention and stricken the heart of this Commonwealth and the ...
... President of the Senate , having called Mr. BAILEY to the Chair , made the following address : — Mr. PRESIDENT : The sad and startling event which has suddenly arrested the attention and stricken the heart of this Commonwealth and the ...
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... President , to attribute the result of a brilliant and successful voyage through life to the favoring gales of fortune . Of many of us this may be true ; but not so of him whose high and commanding career we are suddenly called upon to ...
... President , to attribute the result of a brilliant and successful voyage through life to the favoring gales of fortune . Of many of us this may be true ; but not so of him whose high and commanding career we are suddenly called upon to ...
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... PRESIDENT : At this time , when death has struck down with awful suddenness the senior representative of this Commonwealth in the councils of the Nation , we cannot refrain from the public expression of sorrow , nor fail to manifest our ...
... PRESIDENT : At this time , when death has struck down with awful suddenness the senior representative of this Commonwealth in the councils of the Nation , we cannot refrain from the public expression of sorrow , nor fail to manifest our ...
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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 77 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what is my hope : truly, my hope is even in 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 80 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 300 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 95 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 298 - I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.