Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Clay Stone Briggs, Late a Representative from TexasU.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - Počet stran: 49 |
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... cause . They were a cross - section of the people whom they represented . Coming from different sections of the country and representing , per- haps , different types of citizenship , they at least met in common accord to devise plans ...
... cause . They were a cross - section of the people whom they represented . Coming from different sections of the country and representing , per- haps , different types of citizenship , they at least met in common accord to devise plans ...
Strana 18
... cause . Whatever interest is taken in them is but incidental ; and if a voice speaks out in their behalf , it does so usually without adequate compensa- tion and sometimes without even commendation from the very people sought to be ...
... cause . Whatever interest is taken in them is but incidental ; and if a voice speaks out in their behalf , it does so usually without adequate compensa- tion and sometimes without even commendation from the very people sought to be ...
Strana 19
... causes for which they fought . Few nations can boast of public servants freer from the taint of personal ambitions and greed than are ours . There have been exceptions , to be sure , but their lesser evils have been lost in the greater ...
... causes for which they fought . Few nations can boast of public servants freer from the taint of personal ambitions and greed than are ours . There have been exceptions , to be sure , but their lesser evils have been lost in the greater ...
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... cause of helping America's people on the road toward their great objective a more abundant life . That the impulses which they gave to that cause will continue after their departure we can have no doubt . We are taught by the lessons of ...
... cause of helping America's people on the road toward their great objective a more abundant life . That the impulses which they gave to that cause will continue after their departure we can have no doubt . We are taught by the lessons of ...
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April 29 attend the funeral Ball High School Calhoun County Chaplain CLAY STONE BRIGGS Clerk read committee communicate these resolutions Congress Second Session copy thereof County deceased Representative delegate department of Yale desk a resolution Died District of Texas elected eternal faith friends further mark glass darkly graduated grave gress heard with profound heart hope House adjourned House of Representatives immortality interest James Shera Montgomery JOHN YOUNG BROWN late a Representative late Representative BRIGGS law department Lawyer legal ability live Long Day Closes Marine Band mark of respect Member National Convention never profound sorrow public service reelected Remarks by Representative resolution was agreed Resolved roll call served Seventh Congressional District Seventy-first Seventy-second Seventy-third Congress Second shore Sixty-sixth soul Speaker spirit Stone Briggs LATE succeeding Congress tenth judicial district Thee transmit a copy TREADWAY United States Marine United States Senate untimely passing unto Whereas Judge BRIGGS Yale University ZeBarney
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Strana 20 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Strana 44 - Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. rt] Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
Strana 22 - O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE" Longum illud tempus, quum non era, magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum. — Cicero, Ad Att., xii: 18. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence: live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Strana 13 - ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord.
Strana 20 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Strana 22 - ... of men when the frosts of winter come? If matter, mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the imperial spirit of man suffer annihilation after it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay? Rather let us believe that He who in His apparent prodigality wastes not the raindrop, the blade of grass, or the evening's sighing zephyr, but makes them all to carry out His eternal plans, has given immortality to...
Strana 22 - If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cold and pulseless heart of the buried acorn and to make it burst forth from its prison walls, will He leave neglected in the earth the soul of man, made in the image of his Creator?
Strana 44 - Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased* Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now adjourn.