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Էջ 1 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Էջ 145 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you ; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
Էջ 34 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death.
Էջ 33 - Among the wise and the bold. Let the bell be toll'd: And a reverent people behold The towering car, the sable steeds : Bright let it be with its blazon'd deeds, Dark in its funeral fold.
Էջ 148 - As the zealous patron and promoter of the noblest of all material science», his name must ever shine brilliantly in the pages which record the history of human progress and improvement. His work will have its interpreter on every hillside, and in every valley where rural taste and refinement are found.
Էջ 94 - Supreme council of sovereign grand inspectors general of the thirty-third and last degree of the Ancient accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry for the Northern masonic jurisdiction of the United States of America, 1938.
Էջ 167 - Godding began reading medicine in his father's office and, a few months later, attended his first course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City.
Էջ 139 - ... offices there. His mother, Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Crombie) Sherwin (married May 2, 1797), a lady of great moral worth, was, as her son is, a warm admirer of the beauties of nature. The Wilders are an ancient English family, which The Book of the Wilders, published a few years ago, traces to Nicholas Wilder, a military chieftain in the army of the Earl of Richmond at the battle of Bosworth, 1485. There is strong presumptive evidence that the American family is an offshoot from this....
Էջ 99 - I would rather that such persons should stand at my grave, than to have erected over it the most beautiful sculptured monument of Parian or Italian marble. The heart's broken utterance of reflections of past kindness, and the tears of grateful memory shed upon the grave, are more valuable, in my estimation, than the most costly cenotaph ever reared.— Dr.
Էջ 98 - It is an old saying, that we forget nothing ; as people in fever begin suddenly to talk the language of their infancy, we are stricken by memory sometimes, and old affections rush back on us as vivid as in the time when they were our daily talk? when their presence gladdened our eyes, when their accents thrilled in our ears, when with passionate tears and grief we flung ourselves upon their hopeless corpses.

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