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... true of Dr. Prime . We are all in debt to him . When I was a lad in a country village , taking my first wondering view of books and papers , the Irenæus Letters " 66 66 in the New York Observer were the delight of FUNERAL OF DR . PRIME .
... true of Dr. Prime . We are all in debt to him . When I was a lad in a country village , taking my first wondering view of books and papers , the Irenæus Letters " 66 66 in the New York Observer were the delight of FUNERAL OF DR . PRIME .
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... true fame and a life well worth living . Dear friends , Dr. Prime was a great power in this land . For more than fifty years he has been by voice and pen on the side of every good cause that needed advocates and defenders in our country ...
... true fame and a life well worth living . Dear friends , Dr. Prime was a great power in this land . For more than fifty years he has been by voice and pen on the side of every good cause that needed advocates and defenders in our country ...
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... true and enduring monument , bearing , as it does , in every feature the impress of his rich and versatile genius . He made it what it is . He not only preserved the aim of its founders , but carried it out more largely and in more ...
... true and enduring monument , bearing , as it does , in every feature the impress of his rich and versatile genius . He made it what it is . He not only preserved the aim of its founders , but carried it out more largely and in more ...
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... true that none can enter into its secret who have not known what it is to revisit the scenes of one's childhood after a lapse of many , many years . DR . GRIFFIN'S COLLEGE BOYS . A VERY few weeks after entering Williams College , I was ...
... true that none can enter into its secret who have not known what it is to revisit the scenes of one's childhood after a lapse of many , many years . DR . GRIFFIN'S COLLEGE BOYS . A VERY few weeks after entering Williams College , I was ...
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... true ; and what followed would so tax my proverbial modesty to speak of , that I shall draw upon the graphic powers of the reporters of the Lexington Press . The hour appointed arrived : 66 ' At this moment a venerable and highly ...
... true ; and what followed would so tax my proverbial modesty to speak of , that I shall draw upon the graphic powers of the reporters of the Lexington Press . The hour appointed arrived : 66 ' At this moment a venerable and highly ...
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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.