Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of John H. Evins (a Representative from South Carolina), Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the SenateU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 - 50 páginas |
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Página 13 - tis something; we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. 'Tis little; but it looks in truth As if the quiet bones were blest Among familiar names to rest And in the places of his youth.
Página 15 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time; the autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death; and you can go no whither but you tread upon a dead man's bones.
Página 32 - Thy day has come, not gone; Thy sun has risen, not set; Thy life is now beyond The reach of death or change, Not ended — but begun. O, noble soul! O, gentle heart! Hail, and farewell.
Página 15 - The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages.
Página 3 - Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, this House do now adjourn.
Página 3 - Senate, to offer the resolutions which I send to the Clerk's desk. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will first report the resolutions from the Senate.
Página 2 - Maryland, twelve thousand five hundred copies each, of which three thousand copies of each shall be for the use of the Senate and nine thousand five hundred each for the use of the House of Representatives.
Página 5 - In 1758 he was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of the law in Braintree.
Página 32 - ... who has won for himself a revenue of affection, at whose name men's eyes sparkle and their spirits glow, as if a sun-beam glinted in, and for whom some, in their strength of tenderness, would even dare to die. It would seem, indeed, to be God's usual method to prepare men for extensive usefulness by the personal discipline of trial.
Página 22 - Our lives are albums written through With good or ill, with false or true ; And as the blessed angels turn The pages of our years, God grant they read the good with smiles, And blot the ill with tears.