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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the ... - Page 31
1895
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Thaddeus Stevens: Delivered ...

United States. Congress House - Eulogies - 1869 - 98 pages
...himself for inscription upon his tomb: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...in my death the principles which I have advocated th'ough a long life—equality of man before his Creator. Let us trust and believe that if the earnest...
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Thaddeus Stevens: Delivered ...

United States. Congress House - Eulogies - 1869 - 94 pages
...himself for inscription upon his tomb: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...in my death the principles which I have advocated llrough a long life — equality of man before his Creator. Let us trust and believe that if the earnest...
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A Biographical History of Lancaster County ...: Being a History of Early ...

Alexander Harris - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1872 - 658 pages
...I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but fmding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race,...be enabled to illustrate in my death the principles I have advocated through a long life — equality of man before the Creator." On December 17th, 1868,...
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner, (a Senator ...

United States. Congress - Legislators - 1874 - 128 pages
...bearing these characteristic words : " I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...in my death the principles which I have advocated throughout a long life — equality of man before his Creator." Owen Lovejoy, whose moral heroism had...
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner

United States. Congress - 1874 - 112 pages
...bearing these characteristic words : " I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...in my death the principles which I have advocated throughout a long life — equality of man before his Creator." Owen Lovejoy, whose moral heroism had...
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Centennial Biography: Men of Mark of Cumberland Valley, Pa., 1776-1876

Alfred Nevin - History - 1876 - 548 pages
...himself for inscription on his tomb, " I repose in this quiet, secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...enabled to illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life — equality of man before his Creator." HON. FREDERICK WATTS. JN eminent...
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Stories of Pennsylvania, Or, School Readings from Pennsylvania History

Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Pennsylvania - 1897 - 316 pages
...in Lancaster are these words : — " I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...chosen it that I might be enabled to illustrate in death the principle which I have advocated through a long life — equality of man before his Creator."...
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America, Picturesque and Descriptive, Volume 1

Joel Cook - Canada - 1900 - 558 pages
...selected in Lancaster are these words : " I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries...chosen it that I might be enabled to illustrate in death the principle which I have advocated through a long life — equality of man before his Creator."...
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Race and Race Relations: A Christian View of Human Contacts

Robert Elliott Speer - Race - 1924 - 456 pages
...Great Democratic Commoner himself : " ' I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, Not from any natural preference for solitude, But finding other cemeteries...limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death The principles which I advocated through a long life, Equality...
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Opportunity, Volumes 5-6

African Americans - 1969 - 726 pages
...great commoner whose bones rest there: "I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, Not from any natural preference for solitude, But finding other cemeteries...limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death The principles which I advocated through a long life, Equality...
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