 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 522 pages
...from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire.' " Such a life and character...possession of the American people and of mankind. "Ah, sir, there are times in the history of men and nations when they stand so near the veil that separates... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1882 - 582 pages
...the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil slur! " And moving up from high to higher, Becomes, on Fortune's...a people's hope, The center of a world's desire." "He stood four-square to every wind that blew." — Tctittyion. Cl AMkKK AN CI.M.,l;l .- . CHESTER... | |
 | William S. Key - 1882 - 98 pages
...known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ? Tennyson's In M ttmorinm. LIFE OF PKESIDENT GAEFIELD. TN the great Republic... | |
 | A B. Mackay - 1882 - 162 pages
...known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire." And what can be done in one sphere can be done, and is being done, around... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 832 pages
...known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; " And, moving up from high to higher,...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire." Such a life and character will be treasured forever as the sacred possession... | |
 | 1882 - 310 pages
...the golden keys, To mould a mighty slate's decrees, And shape the whisper of a throne ; And moving np from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning; slope The pillar of a people'H hope. The centre of n, world's desire." i MOiltso »*OM •!•€» »?£ f-.e» •••;«»•... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1882 - 816 pages
...place in his profession. 'And, rising up from high to higher, Became, on fortune's crowning elope, The pillar of a people's hope, The center of a world's desire.' " In meetings held in the Hall of Representatives, commemorative of Professors Morse and Henry, and... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1883 - 112 pages
...known ; And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...of a people's hope, The center of a world's desire! But, sir, no language, either in prose or verse, can portray the greatness of liis loss. His fame is... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 pages
...And lives to clutch the golden keys, — To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne : " And moving up from high to higher,...crowning slope, The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire." James Garfield, who like Lincoln became President of America, and also... | |
 | 1883 - 112 pages
...known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; " And moving up from high to higher,...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire." It is all there, as if written for our learning. Manhood, power, the capacity... | |
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Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... 
