Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Fernando Wood: (a Representative from New York)

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1882 - 40 páginas
 

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Página 31 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which 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.
Página 36 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 29 - As smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment, and the next expires ; As empty clouds by rising winds are tost, Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost ; So vanishes our state, so pass our days ; So life but opens now, and now decays ; The cradle and the tomb, alas ! so nigh, To live, is scarce distinguish'd from to die.
Página 6 - Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now adjourn.
Página 31 - Astrophel," printed with the Elegies of Spenser and others. You knew — who knew not Astrophel ? (That I should live to say I knew, And have not in possession still !) — Things known permit me to renew — Of him you know his merit such, I cannot say — you hear — too much. Within these woods of Arcady...
Página 18 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Página 39 - Resolved, That as a mark of respect for the memory of the deceased the members and officers of the Senate will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to transmit to the family of Mr.
Página 1 - Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the Senate do now adjourn.
Página 39 - Resolved, That as a testimony of respect to his memory the officers and members of this House will wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty days. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted...
Página 1 - Speaker, to whom shall be referred all petitions, memorials, bills, and resolutions touching the " alcoholic traffic," a commission on the same, any amendments to the Constitution limiting or controlling the importation, manufacture, or sale of the same, whose duty it shall be to consider and report thereon.

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