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... thing to live seventy - three years in this world and thoroughly earn one's grave , and leave a record without a blot , a name without a stain , and a character and career that make the whole country debtor to the dead . This is ...
... thing to live seventy - three years in this world and thoroughly earn one's grave , and leave a record without a blot , a name without a stain , and a character and career that make the whole country debtor to the dead . This is ...
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... his best friend would regret he wrote . The remarkable thing - the striking characteristic in Dr. Prime - was the well - balanced head he carried 14 IRENEUS LETTERS . Prime, Samuel Irenæus, Biographical Sketch PAGE I 66 66 Death 66 66 66.
... his best friend would regret he wrote . The remarkable thing - the striking characteristic in Dr. Prime - was the well - balanced head he carried 14 IRENEUS LETTERS . Prime, Samuel Irenæus, Biographical Sketch PAGE I 66 66 Death 66 66 66.
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... thing - that there was no decrepitude , no long invalidism , no period of wasting and suffering . No , he worked up to the last week ; his brain kept its clear light , his hand was firm at his desk , the best wine was at the last . Down ...
... thing - that there was no decrepitude , no long invalidism , no period of wasting and suffering . No , he worked up to the last week ; his brain kept its clear light , his hand was firm at his desk , the best wine was at the last . Down ...
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... things , and often , in later years , he reminded me of what the late Dr. T. H. Skinner said of Dr. Henry B. Smith- " he had more usable knowledge than any man I ever knew . " His insight was keen and his memory retentive , and he knew ...
... things , and often , in later years , he reminded me of what the late Dr. T. H. Skinner said of Dr. Henry B. Smith- " he had more usable knowledge than any man I ever knew . " His insight was keen and his memory retentive , and he knew ...
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... things were so vivid and so ready , and his knowledge of affairs so complete and accurate , that no sub- ject was ever started on which he could not throw some needed light and give some shining illustration . His wit coruscated , his ...
... things were so vivid and so ready , and his knowledge of affairs so complete and accurate , that no sub- ject was ever started on which he could not throw some needed light and give some shining illustration . His wit coruscated , his ...
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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.