Henry Rosenberg, 1824-1893: To Commemorate the Gifts of Henry Rosenberg to Galveston, this Volume is Issued by the Rosenberg LibraryDe Vinne Press, 1918 - 226 páginas |
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Página 178 - They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling ; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my...
Página 150 - ... executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this...
Página 93 - Know all men by these presents, that I, Henry Strominger, of the township of Xewberry, in the count}' of York, and State of Pennsylvania, yeoman, being in good health and of sound and disposing mind...
Página 178 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 178 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, — I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Página 178 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Página 148 - Fifth. I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed, of every name and nature whatsoever and wheresoever situate of which I shall die seized or possessed, or to which I may be entitled at the time of my decease...
Página 96 - And as to my worldly estate and all the property, real personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease...
Página 45 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 145 - In making this bequest, I desire to express in practical form my affection for the city of my adoption and for the people among whom I have lived for so many years, trusting that it will aid their intellectual and moral developments and be a source of pleasure and profit to them and their children and their children's children through many generations.