...319. One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate ; but he must die as a man. — Webster. Oh the grave ! the grave ! It buries every error,...spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. — Ircing. After the fever of life, — after weariness, sickness, fightings and despondings, languor...

...still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. The grave covers every error, buries every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From...fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with...

...They are worth treasuring up. In Irving's own beautiful words, which we may apply to him to-night, " there is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living." So we, to-night, by an apotheosis of our reverent and loving hearts, place Washington Irving among...

...absorbed hi the picture portrayed that the words themselves are lost in the emotions they enkindle: " O, the grave '. the grave ! It buries every error, covers...every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From It* peaceful bosom spring none but fond regret* and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the...

...and sense unknown That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own ! J. a. Whittier. OH THE GRAVE! THE GRAVE! IT buries every error ; covers every defect ; extinguishes every resentment. Who can look on the grave, even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he ever should...

...the hour of gloom, yet who would change it even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry? No; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There wa remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the...

...everything in its place. 138. Beware of little expenses ; a small leak will sink a great ship. 139. There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song....spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. 140. How wonderful a being is man, when viewed in the light of his achievements ! 141. The winds and...

...hour of gloom; yet who would exchange it, even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry r No; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song;...which we turn even from the charms of the living. THE WORK OF GRACE. Grace has engraven her lines upon the memory in a manner more indelible than the...

...angels do ; Sweet as your smile on me shone ever — Douglas, Douglas ! tender and true." " The grave buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes...tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust...

...burst of revelry? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than, song ; there is a recollection of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the li»ri.ig. Oh, the grave ! — the grave ! It buries every error; covers every defect ; extinguishes...