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The marriage took place on June 16, 1827, the lady having previously asked the consent of George IV.!! A droll account of the reception of her Mercure galant at Windsor is given in the North British Review, vol. xxxix. p. 349. Sir John Barrow, the well-known Secretary to the Admiralty, who died in 1848 in his eighty-fifth year. Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconsfield. Storrs, Windermere.
The other case New York remembers yet with a shudder. It was known long in the department for the bravest act ever done by a fireman an act that earned for Foreman William Quirk the medal for 1888. He was next in command of Engine No. 22 when, on a March morning, the Elberon Flats in East Eighty-fifth street were burned.
If you can come soon after one o'clock, we shall have time to prepare maps and telescopes. I saw its situation last night. It has a long tail." How delightful to find such a living interest in life at the age of eighty! On the 25th of August, 1822, this truly great and simple man passed away, in his eighty-fifth year.
'Tis now too late to wish that my life may be like his; for I am in the eighty-fifth year of my age: but I humbly beseech Almighty God, that my death may: and do as earnestly beg of every Reader, to say Amen. Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile, Psal. xxxii. 2.
David Laing, differing from Allan Cunningham, considered that the picture presented "anything but a fortunate likeness." Northcote died July 13th, 1831, in his eighty-fifth year. Act III. Sc. 2. John Fuller, long M.P. for Surrey, an eccentric character, and looked upon as standing jester to the House of Commons. Scott first met him in Chantrey's studio in 1820. See Life, vol. vi. pp. 206, 207.
The young General formed his men at once, they had tasted powder before, the One Hundred and eighty-fifth New York and the One Hundred and ninety-eighth Pennsylvania.
So much was his heart in the work that he remarked on one occasion: "When I feel age creeping on me, and know I must soon die I hope it is not wrong to say it but I cannot bear to leave the world with all the misery in it". The dawn came for him in October, 1885, when in his eighty-fifth year this veteran leader was called to his rest.
"Done at the city of Washington, this fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-fifth. "By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. "WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State."
On the 17th of January, while their boats landed at one of the old villages established by the original French colonists of the region then known as the Province of Louisiana, they met the celebrated Daniel Boone, who was then in his eighty-fifth year, and the next morning they were visited by John Coulter, who had been with Lewis and Clarke on their memorable expedition eight years previously.
He took up the key-note first struck by Manius Curius, his ideal among Roman statesmen; throughout his long life he made it his task honestly, to the best of his judgment, to assail on all hands the prevailing declension; and even in his eighty-fifth year he battled in the Forum with the new spirit of the times.
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