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And what did he get for it? Why colony sarce, half-pay, and leave to make room for Englishers to go over his head; and here is a lyin' false monument, erected to this man that never even see'd one of our national ships, much less smelt thunder and lightning out of one, that English like, has got this for what he didn't do. "I am sorry Mr.
J.C. Ayer presented the city with the statue of Victory which stands in Monument Square. The Old Ladies' Home was dedicated July 10, 1867. St. John's Hospital was completed and opened in 1868. It occupies the site of the old yellow house built in 1770 by Timothy Brown.
It seemed a monument riz up to faithful, patient mothers by the hand of filial gratitude and love." And pretty soon our boat sorter turned round and backed up graceful into Alexandria Bay, and we hitched it there and lay off agin the harbor real neighborly.
I will plant this bush and, though it be not costly like a monument, yet it represents no less in good intentions. "She bought the bush last April and brought it here; and with the spade I loaned her, she dug the earth with her tender hands and set it here.
"On the cat principle, that he tumbles so lightly. You may throw him down from St. Paul's, and the next time you see him he will be scrambling atop of the Monument." Pisistratus. "But a cat the most vicarious is limited to nine lives; and Uncle Jack must be now far gone in his eighth." Ms.
He died the following year, and was buried in the Abbey church, that sepulchre of princes and bishops and abbots. His body was deposited in the place now known as the Poets' Corner, and a fitting monument to his genius was erected over his remains, as the first great poet that had appeared in England, probably only surpassed in genius by Shakspeare, until the language assumed its present form.
These deities are supposed to have represented spirit passing into matter and form, a process of divine incarnation. But the most popular deity was Osiris. His image is found standing on the oldest monument, a form of Ra, the light of the lower world, and king and judge of Hades. His worship was universal throughout Egypt, but his chief temples were at Abydos and Philae.
The mysteries of the sanctuary of iniquity must be unveiled, the tables of the old alliance broken, and all the objects of the ancient faith thrown in a heap to the swine. A charter has been given to us, a resume of political science, the monument of twenty legislatures. A code has been written, the pride of a conqueror, and the summary of ancient wisdom.
The Grand Leddy must have won her plea, then and there, but for the fact that the matter of erecting a monument of a public character anywhere in the city had to come up before the Burgh council. In that body the stubborn opposition of a few members unexpectedly developed, and, in spite of popular sympathy with the proposal, the plan was rejected.
The revisiting of old scenes is like walking into a mausoleum. Everything is a monument of something dead and gone. For we die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well! I returned with a clear conscience, for not only had I as yet escaped corruption, but for the greater part of the time at least I had worked well.
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