Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New YorkJ. Munsell, 1859 |
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academical education Albany American ancestors appointed Assembly attends born Brooklyn Buren canal candidate Cattaraugus Chenango Chenango county church clerk Columbia county common school education constituents convention daughter died discharge district Dutch Dutch Reformed church Dutchess county duties early elected emigrated eminently engaged in farming English descent Erie farmer father formerly a Whig Free Soil friends George grandfather Greene county held various town Henry Clay Herkimer Hubbell industrious James John Laflin last session legislative Legislature Lewis county living mercantile trade mother nominated occupied Oneida county Onondaga Onondaga county organization Orleans county Oswego Otsego county parents paternal personal and political popular Post Master practice Presbyterian present House present position profession prominent received a common removed Rensselaer Republican movement Republican party resides Saratoga Saratoga county Senator settled sketch speaker Standing Committee Steuben subsequently successful Supervisor tion Troy various town offices vote Wheeler Whig party Willard York zealous
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第 39 頁 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
第 8 頁 - Since the organization of the republican party he has been one of its stern adherents.
第 85 頁 - ... thoughts ; what he chooses, not to be educated for, but to educate himself for ; whether he looks to the end and aim of the whole of life, or only to the present day or hour ; whether he listens to the voice of indolence or vulgar pleasure, or to the stirring voice in his own soul, urging his ambition on to the highest objects.
第 209 頁 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
第 102 頁 - A lawless linsy-woolsey brother, Half of one order, half another , A creature of amphibious nature, On land a beast, a fish in water , That always preys on grace or sin ; A sheep without, a wolf within. This fierce inquisitor has chief Dominion over men's belief And manners ; can pronounce a saint Idolatrous or ignorant, When superciliously he sifts Through coarsest boulter others...
第 85 頁 - Much less of success in life is in reality dependent upon accident, or what is called luck, than is commonly supposed. Far more depends upon the objects, which a man proposes to himself; what attainments he aspires to; what is the circle, which bounds his...
第 39 頁 - A politician, Proteus-like, must alter His face and habit; and, like water, seem Of the same colour that the vessel is That doth contain it, varying his form, With the chameleon, at each object's change.
第 187 頁 - Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. Here rills of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take; The modest speaker is asham'd and griev'd T...
第 51 頁 - He is so full of pleasing anecdote, So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, Time vanishes before him as he speaks.
第 27 頁 - Street, surrounded by his grandchildren, and idolatrous neighbors and friends, he was a rare exception to the rule that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.