Memorial Addresses on the Life and Services of Marcus Claiborne Lisle (late a Representative from Kentucky).: Delivered in the House of Representatives and SenateU.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - 55 страница |
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Of him it could be said : Calmly he look'd on either life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd ; Thank'd Heav'n that he had lived , an 1 that he died .
Of him it could be said : Calmly he look'd on either life , and here Saw nothing to regret , or there to fear ; From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd ; Thank'd Heav'n that he had lived , an 1 that he died .
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ability able acquaintance active ADDRESS ambition approach associates become beginning believe better born bright called career character Clerk close colleague committee communicate condition confidence Congress consideration dead death deceased died disease district duties early elected enter faith followed future give going grave Hall hand heard heart held honor hope hour House of Representatives human judge Judge LISLE justice Kentucky kind kindly knew known late a Representative lawyer LISLE lived look loved manhood March MARCUS mark MCCREARY memory mind morning nature never passing position present President promise reached reared received regard resolutions Resolved respect rest seat seemed Senate sense short side sincere sleep soon sorrow soul Speaker spirit strength struggle success tion tribute wife Winchester worthy young
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Страница 24 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Страница 36 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Страница 37 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Страница 35 - But whither went his soul, let such relate Who search the secrets of the future state : Divines can say but what themselves believe; Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative : For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, And faith itself be lost in certainty. To live uprightly then is sure the best, To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest The soul of Arcite went where heathens go., Who better live than we, though less they know.
Страница 36 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Страница 54 - E'en such is man — whose thread is spun, Drawn out and cut, and so is done — The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, and man he dies.
Страница 49 - Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and distinguished public services.
Страница 38 - ... future state, he has a clearer insight into those mysteries. However that may be, he becomes full of misgiving and apprehension, and sets himself to the task of calculating and reflecting whether he has done any wrong to any one. Hereupon, if he finds his life full of unjust deeds, he is apt to start out of sleep in terror, as children do, and he lives haunted by gloomy anticipations. But if his conscience reproaches him with no injustice, he enjoys the abiding presence of sweet Hope, that 'kind...
Страница 49 - Res. 197) were read, considered by unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows : Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon.
Страница 11 - The legislative clerk read as follows: Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of Hon.