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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... idea , the dedication of himself to the great principles , the lofty scorn of party dictation which marked his course , com- bined to build for him an imposing monument of civil labors , whose symmetry and fine proportion no mere chance ...
... idea , the dedication of himself to the great principles , the lofty scorn of party dictation which marked his course , com- bined to build for him an imposing monument of civil labors , whose symmetry and fine proportion no mere chance ...
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... ideas which form the basis of the social theory of the United States , and which seemed to make a Republic possible , practicable , and wise . It was one of the good fortunes of SUMNER'S life that , born amidst these influences , he ...
... ideas which form the basis of the social theory of the United States , and which seemed to make a Republic possible , practicable , and wise . It was one of the good fortunes of SUMNER'S life that , born amidst these influences , he ...
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... idea - an idea which had been powerful enough to hold its friends close together through a contest of three months , and at last defeating the influences which had so long controlled unquestioned the politics of the State , had lifted ...
... idea - an idea which had been powerful enough to hold its friends close together through a contest of three months , and at last defeating the influences which had so long controlled unquestioned the politics of the State , had lifted ...
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... idea and fixed upon the end that it compels the means . John Pym was resolved that Strafford should be impeached , and he found the law for it . CHARLES SUMNER WAS resolved that slavery should fall , and he found the Constitution for it ...
... idea and fixed upon the end that it compels the means . John Pym was resolved that Strafford should be impeached , and he found the law for it . CHARLES SUMNER WAS resolved that slavery should fall , and he found the Constitution for it ...
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... least who was not merely a partisan ; who did not work for party ends but for the ends of the party . It needed a man absorbed and mastered by hostility to slavery ; a man of one idea , like Columbus , with 156 CHARLES SUMNER .
... least who was not merely a partisan ; who did not work for party ends but for the ends of the party . It needed a man absorbed and mastered by hostility to slavery ; a man of one idea , like Columbus , with 156 CHARLES SUMNER .
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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.