Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York

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J. Munsell, 1859
 

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Página 39 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Página 8 - Since the organization of the republican party he has been one of its stern adherents.
Página 85 - ... thoughts ; what he chooses, not to be educated for, but to educate himself for ; whether he looks to the end and aim of the whole of life, or only to the present day or hour ; whether he listens to the voice of indolence or vulgar pleasure, or to the stirring voice in his own soul, urging his ambition on to the highest objects.
Página 209 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Página 102 - A lawless linsy-woolsey brother, Half of one order, half another , A creature of amphibious nature, On land a beast, a fish in water , That always preys on grace or sin ; A sheep without, a wolf within. This fierce inquisitor has chief Dominion over men's belief And manners ; can pronounce a saint Idolatrous or ignorant, When superciliously he sifts Through coarsest boulter others...
Página 85 - Much less of success in life is in reality dependent upon accident, or what is called luck, than is commonly supposed. Far more depends upon the objects, which a man proposes to himself; what attainments he aspires to; what is the circle, which bounds his...
Página 39 - A politician, Proteus-like, must alter His face and habit; and, like water, seem Of the same colour that the vessel is That doth contain it, varying his form, With the chameleon, at each object's change.
Página 187 - Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. Here rills of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take; The modest speaker is asham'd and griev'd T...
Página 51 - He is so full of pleasing anecdote, So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, Time vanishes before him as he speaks.
Página 27 - Street, surrounded by his grandchildren, and idolatrous neighbors and friends, he was a rare exception to the rule that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.

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