Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Henry Clay: A Senator of the United States from the State of KentuckyR. Armstrong, 1852 - 135 頁 |
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... ripening with advancing years— His wisdom growing with his public cares- A chosen envoy , war's dark horrors cease , And tides of carnage turn to streams of peace . Conflicting principles , internal strife , Tariff and slavery , 16.
... ripening with advancing years— His wisdom growing with his public cares- A chosen envoy , war's dark horrors cease , And tides of carnage turn to streams of peace . Conflicting principles , internal strife , Tariff and slavery , 16.
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... PEACE , BE STILL . The lessons of His providence , severe as they may be , often become merciful dispen- sations , like that which is now spreading sorrow through the land , and which is reminding us that we have higher duties to fulfil ...
... PEACE , BE STILL . The lessons of His providence , severe as they may be , often become merciful dispen- sations , like that which is now spreading sorrow through the land , and which is reminding us that we have higher duties to fulfil ...
第 39 頁
... peace of the country and the integrity of the Union , he has always been first to note danger as well as to suggest the means of averting it . When the waters of the great political deep were upheaved by the tempest of discord , and the ...
... peace of the country and the integrity of the Union , he has always been first to note danger as well as to suggest the means of averting it . When the waters of the great political deep were upheaved by the tempest of discord , and the ...
第 40 頁
... peace , happiness , union , and prosperity - still advancing in all the elements of wealth , greatness , and power . I know , Mr. President , how unequal I have been to the apparently self - imposed task of presenting , in an ...
... peace , happiness , union , and prosperity - still advancing in all the elements of wealth , greatness , and power . I know , Mr. President , how unequal I have been to the apparently self - imposed task of presenting , in an ...
第 45 頁
... peaceful close ; perfecting the Army and the Navy , and the national fortifications ; settling the fiscal and ... peace and amity with all existing maritime Powers ; and ex- tending the constitutional organization of Govern- ment ...
... peaceful close ; perfecting the Army and the Navy , and the national fortifications ; settling the fiscal and ... peace and amity with all existing maritime Powers ; and ex- tending the constitutional organization of Govern- ment ...
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第 76 頁 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
第 22 頁 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
第 10 頁 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
第 87 頁 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar...
第 115 頁 - And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
第 134 頁 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
第 54 頁 - Why weep ye then for him, who, having won The bound of man's appointed years, at last, Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his final rest has passed; While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set...
第 87 頁 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
第 130 頁 - Such is the character of that statesmanship which alone would have met the full approval of the venerated dead. For the religion which always had a place in the convictions of his mind, had also, within a recent period, entered into his experience, and seated itself in his heart. Twenty years since he wrote—" I am a member of no religious sect, and I am not a professor of religion. I regret that I am not. I wish that I was, and trust that I shall be. I have, and always have had, a profound regard...
第 117 頁 - With dying hand the rudder held, Till, in his fall, with fateful sway, The steerage of the realm gave way ! Then, while on Britain's thousand plains One unpolluted church remains, Whose peaceful bells ne'er sent around The bloody tocsin's maddening sound, But still, upon the...