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... Returning after Fifty Years ..... Righteous Man's Prayer , Story of . 9 12 19 137 381 306 234 38 313 Ripley , Hours with George . Rogers , Burial of Dr ..... Seeking Rest and Finding None . Shams of Society ...... 88 76 203 219 Shelter ...
... Returning after Fifty Years ..... Righteous Man's Prayer , Story of . 9 12 19 137 381 306 234 38 313 Ripley , Hours with George . Rogers , Burial of Dr ..... Seeking Rest and Finding None . Shams of Society ...... 88 76 203 219 Shelter ...
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... returned . He was laid in this sepulchre one hun- dred and five years ago , and the record on his tombstone is easily legible to - day . The Rev. Ebenezer Prime , of whom I am writing , was born in Milford , Conn . , in the year 1700 ...
... returned . He was laid in this sepulchre one hun- dred and five years ago , and the record on his tombstone is easily legible to - day . The Rev. Ebenezer Prime , of whom I am writing , was born in Milford , Conn . , in the year 1700 ...
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... RETURNING AFTER FIFTY YEARS . THE first Chief Justice of the United States was John Jay , of Bedford , Westchester County , N. Y. He was a large landed proprietor there , and on a height commanding one of the finest inland views in the ...
... RETURNING AFTER FIFTY YEARS . THE first Chief Justice of the United States was John Jay , of Bedford , Westchester County , N. Y. He was a large landed proprietor there , and on a height commanding one of the finest inland views in the ...
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... were coming in wagons , car- riages , buggies and on foot from all directions . The house was filled with friends who had come from this and the sur- rounding towns and villages . Some greeted me from South RETURNING AFTER FIFTY YEARS . 39.
... were coming in wagons , car- riages , buggies and on foot from all directions . The house was filled with friends who had come from this and the sur- rounding towns and villages . Some greeted me from South RETURNING AFTER FIFTY YEARS . 39.
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... Him who giveth his beloved sleep . It had been a day of as much physical and mental labor and spiritual excitement as any day of the half - century past . And I was glad to say , " Now I RETURNING AFTER FIFTY YEARS . 41.
... Him who giveth his beloved sleep . It had been a day of as much physical and mental labor and spiritual excitement as any day of the half - century past . And I was glad to say , " Now I RETURNING AFTER FIFTY YEARS . 41.
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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.