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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... duty to announce to you the death of our senior member in the United States Senate . Yesterday afternoon , at ten minutes before three o'clock , in his own rooms at Washington , at the age of sixty- three years , CHARLES SUMNER departed ...
... duty to announce to you the death of our senior member in the United States Senate . Yesterday afternoon , at ten minutes before three o'clock , in his own rooms at Washington , at the age of sixty- three years , CHARLES SUMNER departed ...
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... duties of his place was an example worthy of general commendation . He rarely allowed personal considerations of any kind to interfere with his public obligations . Had he not been blessed with an iron constitution , he must long ago ...
... duties of his place was an example worthy of general commendation . He rarely allowed personal considerations of any kind to interfere with his public obligations . Had he not been blessed with an iron constitution , he must long ago ...
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... duty . His wishes in this respect were gratified . The day before his death he was at the Senate Chamber attending to official business as our agent and servant ; and one of his last utterances , ' when in the very arms of death , was a ...
... duty . His wishes in this respect were gratified . The day before his death he was at the Senate Chamber attending to official business as our agent and servant ; and one of his last utterances , ' when in the very arms of death , was a ...
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... in every form , he stood a tower of adamant . At every crisis in public affairs his bearing was that of one who , confident as to his own duty , was considerate of the rights of others . His extraordinary acquisitions RESOLUTIONS . 21.
... in every form , he stood a tower of adamant . At every crisis in public affairs his bearing was that of one who , confident as to his own duty , was considerate of the rights of others . His extraordinary acquisitions RESOLUTIONS . 21.
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... duty , and with the other hand the poor and the lowly to the great opportunity and the sweet consolation which attends untrammelled manhood . Not always in accord with popular demand , he was always found proudly in the fore - front of ...
... duty , and with the other hand the poor and the lowly to the great opportunity and the sweet consolation which attends untrammelled manhood . Not always in accord with popular demand , he was always found proudly in the fore - front of ...
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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.