Memorial of Hon. Harry Bingham: LL.D., Lawyer, Legislator, AuthorHenry Harrison Metcalf Rumford, 1910 - 505 pages |
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Page 293 - So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of Death, Thou go not like the quarry -slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 43 - And we that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom?
Page 283 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 229 - State should reconsider their ordinances of secession, and again recognize the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land.
Page 283 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 176 - ... shall be punished by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than two years, and shall pay a fine of two thousand dollars.
Page 32 - In religion Judge Bingham was not a bigot. He was tolerant of the reb'gion of Confucius, the ancient Chinese law-giver, who taught that one should not do unto others what he would not have others do unto him; and he accepted the teachings of our Saviour, that one should do unto others as he would have others do unto him.
Page 405 - They were very active at the Republican primaries, and in some instances were elected delegates to the county convention. We do not blame them for this, for a man who will not provide for his own household is
Page 352 - In this speech he advocated the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one...
Page 152 - The undersigned, a minority of the Select Committee, to whom was referred so much of the message of his Excellency, the Governor, as relates to the...