Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Gustave Schleicher: (a Representative from Texas,) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Forty-fifth Congress, Third Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - 86 strani |
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Stran 58 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Stran 72 - That as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members and officers of this House will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Stran 28 - That we deeply and truly sympathize with the family and friends of the deceased, and would commend them to the care of Him who has promised to be a Father to the fatherless and the widow's God.
Stran 41 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Stran 27 - THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of the State of...
Stran 28 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong. For them the voice...
Stran 70 - That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
Stran 4 - Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased this House do now adjourn.
Stran 72 - ... to sustain. Resolved. That, as a mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members and officers will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Stran 16 - He had devoted the best years of his laborious life to their service, and to his efforts more than to those of any other one man is attributable the present peaceful and satisfactory condition of the Mexican border.