Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William R. King, of Alabama, Vice-president of the United States: Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Eighth of December, 1853B. Tucker, 1854 - 77 páginas |
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Página 62 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 42 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes • Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Página 44 - Resolved, That as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members and officers of this House will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That the proceedings of this House in relation to the death of Hon.
Página 30 - Thy words had such a melting flow, And spoke of truth so sweetly well, They dropp'd like Heaven's serenest snow, And all was brightness where they fell...
Página 44 - President of the United States, and President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair be shrouded in black during the present session of Congress ; and as a further testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members and officers of this House will go into mourning, and wear black crape on the left arm for thirty days. Resolved, As a further mark of respect, that this House do now adjourn. MR. CHANDLER, of Pennsylvania, rose, and said — • MR. SPEAKER : The spectacle presented in this...
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Página 17 - There is nothing which more distinguishes the great national race to which we belong, than its aptitude for government by deliberative assemblies; its willingness, while it asserts the largest liberty of parliamentary right, to respect what the Senator from Virginia, in another connection, has called the self-imposed restrictions of parliamentary order ; and I do not think it an exaggeration to say, that there is no trait in...
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