Memorial Eulogies Delivered in the House of Representtives of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 - 86 páginas |
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Alabama ambition Ampère ARAGO beauty beloved BENJAMIN H bereaved Brown University celestial mechanism character Congress Constitution courage Crittenden death debate devotion discovery DOUGLAS duty early earth electric electro-magnetism elements eloquence energy exalted experiments faith fame FARADAY father favorite Federal flower force friends friendship gave genius gentle Georgia gifted glory golden bowl grace grand heart heroes honor hope HOUSTON human ical illustrated intellectual John Stuart Mill JOSEPH HENRY JULIAN HARTRIDGE KERR knew land legislation lift light lived magic magnet memory midst mind moral moral universe MORSE MORSE'S mountains mourn nature never NEWTON numbered Oersted orator oratory patriotism political praise principle Professor HENRY Quitman ready religion Samuel Adams SAMUEL FINLEY scholar Senator shadow shine Southern Speaker speech sphere spirit splendid star statesman STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS sweet sympathy telegraph Tennessee thought tion to-day trust Union virtues voice wonderful words
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Página 53 - His old-time courtesy, his charming simplicity, his loving domestic relations, his singleness of purpose, his freedom from sordid, jealous, harsh, and bitter qualities, his chaste, subdued, and genial humor, his pure, poetic, and aesthetic susceptibility, his benignant and dignified manner, his delight in acquiring, what he imparted with so much suavity, and his earnest and unobtrusive pursuit of lofty ends through noble means, gave him felicity, ay, even genuine fame, in this life. Called to administer...
Página 40 - It is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave: at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament; it chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave — a reasoning savage...
Página 14 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys. To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 25 - To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Página 83 - Had I twenty sons I should rejoice if they were all so employed." The very religion of Georgia had in it a courage which does not belong to our time, when the voyage across the Atlantic is robbed of most of its terror. In the center and heart of this historic State, and in a county which bears the name of the bravest soldier that ever bore a banner to victory — Jasper — andjwith the heroic and religious associations of its founders, young HILL was born.
Página 14 - But, sir, no language, either in prose or verse, can portray the greatness of his loss. His fame is printed in the hearts of the people. From the Green Mountains of his native State to the white tops of the Pacific Sierras, while the heavens bend above our land to bless it, the rivers roll and the mountains stand to unite it, or the ceaseless interchange of traffic and thought goes on by sea and rail, by telegraph or...
Página 41 - They are a growing kind of men that can wisely combine the two things, — wisely, valiantly can do what is laid to their hand in their present sphere, and prepare themselves withal for doing other wider things, if such lie before them.
Página 5 - ... to shape, fashion, and make enduring, a platform of his own. No notice of STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS is complete which does not remark upon the singular magnetism of his personal presence, the talismanic touch of his kindly hand, the gentle amenities of his domestic life, and* the ineradicable clasp of his friendships. It may not be improper to refer to the fact that I was one among the many young men of the West who were bound to him by a tie of friendship and a spell of enthusiasm which death has no...
Página 13 - ... section his country, but loved all sections alike ; and hold up his life, so fruitful in wisdom beyond his years, for the admiration of the old; and picture him for the imitation of the young as that " Divinely gifted man Whose life in low estate began; Who grasped the skirts of happy chance...
Página 11 - ... a chance to atone for past error by new devotion. Mr. Speaker, men do not change their natures so easily. The DOUGLAS of 1861 was the DOUGLAS of 1850, 1854, and 1858. The patriot who denounced this great rebellion was the patriot in every fold and lineament of his character. There is not a page of his history that we can afford to blot. The words which escaped him in the delirium of his last days — when he heard the "battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting " — were...