Eulogy on the Life and Character of Rev. Zachariah Greene: A Patriot of the Revolution, and Late Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Setauket, N.Y. : Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Hempstead, February 10th, 1859Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1859 - 50 Seiten |
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Seite 44 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Seite 34 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Seite 44 - What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
Seite 40 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Seite 17 - the rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month :" and to Lord Dartmouth he wrote ; " It must have been the employment of at least twelve thousand men.
Seite 22 - ... some none at all. In .addition to which, as a proof of the little benefit received from a clothier-general, and as a further proof of the inability of an army, under the circumstances of this, to perform the common duties of soldiers, (beside a number of men confmed to hospitals for want of shoes, and others in farmers...
Seite 22 - ... houses on the same account,) we have, by a field-return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men now in camp unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise naked. By the same return it appears, that our whole strength in Continental troops, including the eastern brigades, which have joined us since...
Seite 22 - ... up all night by fires, instead of taking comfortable rest in a natural and common way), have decreased near two thousand men.
Seite 22 - I can declare that no man, in my opinion, ever had his measures more impeded than I have by every department of the army. "Since the month of July we have had no assistance from the quartermaster-general, and to want of assistance from this department the commissary-general charges great part of his deficiency.
Seite 38 - Though old, he still retain'd His manly sense, and energy of mind. Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe ; He still remember'd that he once was young : His easy presence check'd no decent joy.