Discourse on the Life and Character of George Peabody: Delivered ... February 18, 1870 ...J. Murphy & Company, 1870 - 60 páginas |
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9 April ability to indulge aristo BALTIMORE benevolence better bounty busiest industry centurions character characteristics had grown charity cisely the reverse compelled to sink Cordova's doctrine doubt equally disposed downright nature earn small sums fancy for drones fond of detail fortune frankincense full of system George Peabody Germanicus gifts give gladiator Gonzalo De Cordova's gratifica habits therefore continued hand heart honor humanity influences he pursued JOHN MURPHY kind kindly knew life-time love of money manly memory mighty curbs myrrh ness obolus Overboard at sea Peabody Institute Peabody's pleasure power to dazzle pride raft seaworthy reverence rich robust and downright Sacristan comes singing sea and compelled seems seven other devils SEVERN TEACKLE WALLIS singing and goes single and melancholy sink or swim soul speak strength are bounding sympathy system and fond tastes TEACKLE WALLIS things thrift tilian proverb tion to-day told tribute united waters whole wise
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Página 44 - ... been born at the South, born to the feelings, beliefs, and perhaps prejudices of Southern men, might have taken the same course which was adopted by the South, and have cast in our lot with those who fought, as all must admit, so bravely for what they believed to be their rights. Never, therefore, during the war or since, have I permitted the contest, or any passions engendered by it, to interfere with the social relations and warm friendships which I had formed for a very large number of the...
Página 22 - ... the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God ; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but His that...
Página 24 - ... itself and its attendant courtesies and charities, a noble republican institution. It is among the noblest, and worth a Senateful of demagogues and wranglers. When I see a man like George Peabody — a man of plain intellect and moderate education — who is willing to take away from the acquisition of successful trade, what would make the fortunes of a hundred men of reasonable desires, and dedicate it to the advancement of knowledge and the cultivation of refining and liberal pursuits and tastes,...
Página 27 - are too often merely a bonus to public indolence and vice. What a dark lesson of the fallacy of human wisdom does this knowledge strike into the heart! What a waste of the materials of kindly sympathies ! What a perversion individual mistakes can cause even in the virtues of a nation ! Charity is a feeling dear to the pride of the human heart; it is an aristocratic emotion! Mohammed testified his deep knowledge of his kind when he allowed the vice hardest to control— sexual licentiousness; and...
Página 12 - ... echo round us, as it rose from all the multitude, when Agrippina landed with her precious burden, and her sobbing children followed. The urn is borne to the Imperial City on the shoulders of centurions and tribunes. Crowds hasten from afar and weep, in mourning garments, by the road-sides.
Página 27 - ... return to the Great Giver of all good. The Lord estimates the sacrifices of the rich, not by what is given, but by what is left. It was a frequent saying of Gonsalvo de Cordova, the great Spanish captain, "Never stint your hand : there is no mode of enjoying one's property like giving it away.
Página 31 - When his patriotism or his national pride was touched, he did not let it stand for a moment in the way of his...