 | 1859 - 516 ページ
...will feel as they did, that * EB Browning, " Cowper's Grave." — Mr. Motley's saying, that William " went through life bearing the load of a people's sorrows upon his shoulders with a smiling face," may remind us of two seemingly opposed stanzas in the same poem: 0 men ! this man in brotherhood, Your... | |
 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 ページ
...whether originally of a timid temperament or not, he was certainly possessed of perfect courage at last: he went through life, bearing the load of a people's...sorrows upon his shoulders, with a smiling face." That cheerful heart sustained him under burdens and trials hitherto unknown in our history; and we... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 ページ
...gaiety at momentous epochs was even censured by dullards, who could not comprehend its philosophy. He went through life bearing the load of a people's sorrows upon his shoulders with a smiling face." It is pleasant to know that what was perhaps the last official act of the President before the fatal... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1865 - 436 ページ
...was even censured by dullards, who could not comprehend its philosophy. He went through life bearnig the load of a people's sorrows upon his shoulders with a smiling face." It is pleasant to know that what was perhaps the last official act of the President before the fatal... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 ページ
...who would compass the murder. He had already been shot through the head, and almost mortally wounded. He went through life bearing the load of a people's...all his lifetime commended his soul, in dying, " to the great Captain, Christ." The people were grateful and affectionate, for they trusted the character... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 ページ
...who would compass the murder. He had already been shot through the head, and almost mortally wounded. He went through life bearing the load of a people's...all his lifetime commended his soul, in dying, "to the great Captain, Christ." The people were grateful and affectionate, for they trusted the character... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 ページ
..." Wrap me in the flag of my country." Of Abraham Lincoln it could be said, as of William of Orange, "He went through life bearing the load of a people's sorrows upon his shoulders with a smiling face. ... As long as he lived, he was the guiding star of a whole brave nation ; and, when he died, the little... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 ページ
...who would compass the murder. He had already been shot through the head, and almost mortally wounded. He went through life bearing the load of a people's...his lips, save the simple affirmative with which the soldicr who had been battling for the right all his lifetime commended his soul, in dying, " to the... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 ページ
...dullards, who could not comprehend its philosophy, nor applaud the flippancy of William the Silent. He went through life bearing the load of a people's...shoulders with a smiling face. Their name was the last upon his lips, save the simple affirmative, with which the soldier who had been battling for the right... | |
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He went through life bearing the load of a people's sorrows upon his shoulders with a smiling face. Their name was the last word upon his lips, save the simple affirmative with which the soldier who had been battling for the right all his lifetime commended... 
