A Discourse Delivered in Quincy, March 11, 1848, at the Interment of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United StatesC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1848 - 60 стор. |
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DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN QUINCY William P. (William Parsons) 1805 Lunt Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
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Abigail Adams's Albert Gallatin Almighty ancestors appointed assurances behalf Blessed Boston Braintree career Chairman character CHRISTIAN PSALTER Church Committee of Arrangements Congregational CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Congress Congressional Committee convey copy Court of St DANIEL BAXTER Dear Sir departed servant died Discourse delivered dust duties eleventh instant England F. A. TALLMADGE faithful unto death father fellow-christian funeral ceremonies Gentlemen glorious hands Harvard College hearts Henry Adams honor inhabitants INTERMENT OF JOHN JAMES BROWN John Adams JOHN Q JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Joseph JOSIAH BRIGHAM Josiah Quincy last of earth late letter Lord LUNT March 14 Marshals Massachusetts memory mind Minister moral MORTON Mount Wollaston native place obedient servant occasion Orange Clark Patriot represented request sacred Scripture Secretary Senate superintend the funeral thanks THEE A CROWN Thomas Greenleaf THOU FAITHFUL UNTO tion town of Quincy truth United venerable virtue Voted WILLIAM worshiper
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Сторінка 17 - O God! Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me.' I cannot describe to you the thrill with which I first read those lines, generalizing the thought as one of the melancholy conditions of human life and death ; nor say to you how often, in the course of my long career, I have applied those lines to
Сторінка 29 - When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when thou shalt be old, another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Сторінка 41 - is born of a woman is of a few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not. Thou
Сторінка 48 - with as much animation of manner, as he would have evinced in political discussions, or in managing the affairs of a nation. Lord Bacon has said that " he who cannot contract the sight of his mind as well as disperse and dilate it,
Сторінка 45 - Who took his flight from the Dragon persecution in Devonshire, in England, and alighted with eight sons, near Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England; and after taking time to explore the Country, four removed to
Сторінка 50 - the prospects of futurity Improved the condition of their times; PILGRIM, To the race of man upon Earth. From lives thus spent thy earthly duties learn, From Fancy's dreams to active Virtue turn; Let Freedom, Friendship, Faith, thy soul engage, And serve like them thy country and thy age.
Сторінка 40 - garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds: Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ! 4 All heads must come to the cold tomb:
Сторінка 50 - 1818, JEl. 74. Married 25 Oct. 1764. During an union of more than half a century, They survived, in harmony of sentiment, principle, and affection, The tempests of civil commotion; Meeting undaunted, and surmounting The terrors and trials of that Revolution Which secured the Freedom of
Сторінка 44 - height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. In