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... NEVER since the New York Observer was established has it carried to the hearts of its readers such a burden of personal sorrow as it bears to - day , in the intelligence of the death of its Senior Editor , the Rev. SAMUEL IRENEUS PRIME ...
... NEVER since the New York Observer was established has it carried to the hearts of its readers such a burden of personal sorrow as it bears to - day , in the intelligence of the death of its Senior Editor , the Rev. SAMUEL IRENEUS PRIME ...
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... never a bigot or fanatic on any question agitated and de- bated in the land for half a century . I think if all his letters were bound in a book , that if all his writings were examined , the most careful scrutiny would not find a line ...
... never a bigot or fanatic on any question agitated and de- bated in the land for half a century . I think if all his letters were bound in a book , that if all his writings were examined , the most careful scrutiny would not find a line ...
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... never sees The stars shine through his cypress - trees ! " So is The assembly then united with the Rev. William Ormis- ton , D.D. , in a fervent and comforting prayer , after which the hymn " Jerusalem the glorious , " a favorite hymn ...
... never sees The stars shine through his cypress - trees ! " So is The assembly then united with the Rev. William Ormis- ton , D.D. , in a fervent and comforting prayer , after which the hymn " Jerusalem the glorious , " a favorite hymn ...
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... never withheld the kind words which do good like a medi- cine . It is easy for one to say this , but only those who have had a similar experience can estimate the draft thus made not only on his purse , but upon his time , his hands ...
... never withheld the kind words which do good like a medi- cine . It is easy for one to say this , but only those who have had a similar experience can estimate the draft thus made not only on his purse , but upon his time , his hands ...
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... never repeating himself , never falling far below his average , and often rising greatly above it . It remains for me to say a word respecting Dr. Prime's in- tercourse with his ministerial brethren . This was always pleasant and ...
... never repeating himself , never falling far below his average , and often rising greatly above it . It remains for me to say a word respecting Dr. Prime's in- tercourse with his ministerial brethren . This was always pleasant and ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.