Lives and Opinions of Benjń Franklin Butler ... and Jesse Hoyte ...1845 - 308 páginas |
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Lives and Opinions of Benjn Franklin Butler and Jesse Hoyte William Lyon MacKenzie Prévia não disponível - 2013 |
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Albany Allen Anti-masonry appointed B. F. BUTLER believe Bennett bill brother C. C. CAMBRELENG cash cashier caucus cent character charter clerk Clinton Coddington Collector Congress corrupt Counsellor at Law course court Custom House Daniel Jackson Dear Sir-I democratic deposites District Attorney dollars doubt Duer duties election favor fraud friends Governor Hoyt's Inspector interest Jackson Jacob Barker James Gordon Bennett Jeromus Johnson Jesse Hoyt John John Van Buren Judge Lawrence legislature letter Livingston Lorenzo Hoyt Marcy Martin Van Buren merchants Messrs millions Ness Noah nominated notes opinion paid paper party persons political Post President received republican Sandy Hill Senate Silas Wright specie speculation Swartwout Tammany Hall Throop told Treasury truly U. S. Bank voted Wall street Walter Bowne Ward Warren Bank Washington and Warren Wetmore Whig wish write wrote York
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Página 26 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 14 - Had we a faithful and respectable minister, and were the people more anxious for and attentive to religion, I should have nothing to ask for, but the continuance of health to make this place delightful. The contrast between Albany and Sandy Hill in this particular is great. You do not at all estimate as you ought, the peculiar privileges you enjoy. They are remarkably great * * * * The Gospel is either a " savor of life unto life,
Página 34 - ... neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel : thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
Página 145 - With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
Página 145 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Página 145 - He blazed his name, more pleased to have it there Than in the book of life. Seest thou the man ! A serpent with an angel's voice ! a grave With flowers bestrewed ! and yet few were deceived. His virtues being over-done, his face Too grave, his prayers too long, his charities Too pompously attended, and his speech Larded too frequently and out of time With serious phraseology,— were rents That in his garments opened in spite of him, Through which the well-accustomed eye could see The rottenness...
Página 128 - They got it, too. The 7th Ward Bank got a legislative charter in 1832, Walter Bowne, President— and when the new Custom House was to be built, Congress voted money, provided for commissioners, but prescribed not their duties.
Página 12 - What ! kill men unarmed, unresisting, and, gracious God ! women too ; disfigured, maimed, cut down, and trampled on, by dragoons ! ! Is this England ? This a Christian land ? A land of freedom ? Can such things be, and pass by us like a summer cloud, unheeded? Forbid it, every drop of English blood in every vein that does not proclaim its owner bastard.
Página 145 - ... righteous smiled, and even Despair itself some signs of laughter gave, As ineffectually he strove to wipe His brow, that inward guiltiness defiled. Detected wretch ! of all the reprobate, None seemed maturer for the flames of hell ; Where still his face, from ancient custom, wears A holy air, which says to all that pass Him by : I was a hypocrite on earth.
Página 24 - The triumph of his talents and patriotism, cannot fail to become monuments of high and enduring fame. We cannot, indeed, but remember, that in our public career, collisions of opinion and action, at once extensive, earnest, and enduring, have arisen between the deceased and many of us. For myself, sir, it gives me a deep-felt, though melancholy satisfaction, to know, and more so, to be conscious, that...