| George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....presence of death — and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment,... | |
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....presence of death — and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment,... | |
| Francis Marion Green - Presidents - 1882 - 460 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks 01 torture, to silence", and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....presence of death — and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment,... | |
| William M. Thayer - Presidents - 1882 - 522 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....presence of death — and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment,... | |
| Elocution - 1882 - 328 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....presence of Death — and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment,... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - Presidents - 1882 - 104 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....presence of death — and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment,... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - Presidents - 1882 - 106 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....visible presence of death — and he did not quail. 59 Not alone for the qne short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware... | |
| Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....visible presence of Death — and he did not quail. Not^alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed he could give up life, hardly aware... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - Governors - 1882 - 22 pages
...found the names of a pious Catholic priest and of an honest-minded and generous-hearted free-thinker. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of death—and he did not quail. Net alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - Presidents - 1882 - 74 pages
...next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death....aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of death—and he did not quail. Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could... | |
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