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... legislative assemblies are pleased to meet so many with whom we have been associated in legislative duties . We can all , I hope , unite in the expression of the great poet when he says : " Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes , And ...
... legislative assemblies are pleased to meet so many with whom we have been associated in legislative duties . We can all , I hope , unite in the expression of the great poet when he says : " Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes , And ...
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... legislative period . We had a legislative ticket to elect , on which Mr. Grimes and myself were co - laborers . Yesterday , when the roll was called , I alone answered to a name , and am really the last leaf on the tree . Then I thought ...
... legislative period . We had a legislative ticket to elect , on which Mr. Grimes and myself were co - laborers . Yesterday , when the roll was called , I alone answered to a name , and am really the last leaf on the tree . Then I thought ...
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... legislators , and express the conviction that if we and our successors continue to build as wisely and as well as they began , the future contains a long vista of honor , wealth and happiness for our people ; that we will cherish this ...
... legislators , and express the conviction that if we and our successors continue to build as wisely and as well as they began , the future contains a long vista of honor , wealth and happiness for our people ; that we will cherish this ...
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... Legislators , grateful thanks for the noble part you have performed in the development of this great State . As a slight testimonial of our appreciation and a token of respect to one of the oldest legislators here to - day , the House ...
... Legislators , grateful thanks for the noble part you have performed in the development of this great State . As a slight testimonial of our appreciation and a token of respect to one of the oldest legislators here to - day , the House ...
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... legislative to other old legislators who will follow . I am glad to know that this society includes the early judicial officers of the territory and State , as well as the early legislators . As most of my official life was on the bench ...
... legislative to other old legislators who will follow . I am glad to know that this society includes the early judicial officers of the territory and State , as well as the early legislators . As most of my official life was on the bench ...
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Page 92 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 31 - The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armor against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 40 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 86 - You hear that boy laughing? You think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done. The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all!
Page 18 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 18 - Tis less of earth than heaven.. Her every tone is music's own, Like those of morning birds, And something more than melody Dwells ever in her words; The coinage of her heart are they, And from her lips each flows As one may see the burdened bee Forth issue from the rose.
Page 46 - The glory of young men is their strength : and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Page 76 - His youth was innocent ; his riper age, Marked with some act of goodness, every day ; And watched by eyes that loved him, calm, and sage, Faded his late declining years away. Cheerful he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.
Page 76 - That life was happy ; every day he gave Thanks for the fair existence that was his; For a sick fancy made him not her slave, To mock him with her phantom miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him.
Page 63 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.