Writings of Severn Teackle Wallis, Volumen1J. Murphy, 1896 |
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... leaving Washington College , Kent County , Maryland , studied law in the office of the Hon . James A. Bayard , in Wilmington , Delaware , but never appears to have practised the profession . After his marriage to Miss Teackle , and the ...
... leaving Washington College , Kent County , Maryland , studied law in the office of the Hon . James A. Bayard , in Wilmington , Delaware , but never appears to have practised the profession . After his marriage to Miss Teackle , and the ...
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... leaving college , Mr. Wallis began the study of the law in Baltimore , in the office of the celebrated William Wirt , the distinguished orator and jurist , who , from 1817 to 1829 , under two Presidents and three administrations , held ...
... leaving college , Mr. Wallis began the study of the law in Baltimore , in the office of the celebrated William Wirt , the distinguished orator and jurist , who , from 1817 to 1829 , under two Presidents and three administrations , held ...
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... leave his house . Finally , on the 11th of April of 1894 , less from the inroads of disease than from the gradual weakening and exhaustion of the vital forces , he quietly and painlessly passed away , in the seventy - eighth year of his ...
... leave his house . Finally , on the 11th of April of 1894 , less from the inroads of disease than from the gradual weakening and exhaustion of the vital forces , he quietly and painlessly passed away , in the seventy - eighth year of his ...
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... leave no duty , public or private , unfulfilled , and acknowledged no limit to his obligations except the lack of opportunity or want of physical strength . The universal sorrow with which the announcement of his death , although not ...
... leave no duty , public or private , unfulfilled , and acknowledged no limit to his obligations except the lack of opportunity or want of physical strength . The universal sorrow with which the announcement of his death , although not ...
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... leave it , and cannot leap from it without peril of destruction . Onward , forward , like Mazeppa : " So fast they fly - away - away— That they can neither sigh nor pray . " Can this be life ? the life of men and nations ? the intended ...
... leave it , and cannot leap from it without peril of destruction . Onward , forward , like Mazeppa : " So fast they fly - away - away— That they can neither sigh nor pray . " Can this be life ? the life of men and nations ? the intended ...
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Assembly of Maryland Baltimore beauty better bless called charity citizen committee course death dreams duty eyes faculties feel flowers Fort McHenry Fort Warren Fortress Monroe fortune friends Gentlemen George Peabody give Greenmount Cemetery hand happy hath heart Heaven honor hope hour human Institute intellectual John Edmondson John McDonogh knew labor lawyer learned less liberal life's light live look Lord manhood manly Maryland McDonogh means memory ment mind moral nature never noble Northampton counties o'er ourselves Peabody Institute pleasure political practical pride profession professional pursuit regard reverence ROGER BROOKE TANEY sense Severn Teackle Severn Teackle Wallis smile society sorrow soul speak spirit struggle sweet sympathy Talbot county tastes teach Teackle Wallis thee thine things thou thought tion to-day toil true truth Wallis's wealth wise woman's vengeance worship
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Página 3 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Página 15 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 126 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 146 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 162 - A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Página 133 - God forbid that it should be imagined that an attorney or a counsel or even a judge, is bound to know all the law, or that an attorney is to lose his fair recompense on account of an error, being such an error as a cautious man might fall into.
Página 24 - A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong: and a huckster shall not be freed from sin.
Página 121 - is found experimentally to be best promoted by the opposite efforts of practised and ingenious men, presenting to the selection of an impartial judge the best arguments for the establishment and explanation of truth.
Página 11 - I should, said he, Bestow this Jewell also on my creature, He would adore my gifts in stead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessnesse : Let him be rich and wearie, that at least, If goodnesse leade him not, yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast.