Life of Joseph Cowen, with Letters, Extracts from His Speeches, and Verbatim Report of His Last SpeechW. Scott Publishing Company, 1904 - 252 pages |
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Page 75 - Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 190 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 112 - April 1721 he took office as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and for more than twenty years, under two kings, he was at the head of the Government.
Page 237 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
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