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Page 35 - Sherman was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States ; and he was chosen a representative from this State to the first Congress under this constitution.
Page 186 - Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong: Pride and glory and honor, — all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high : Hats off! The flag is passing by ! HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT.
Page 83 - Statesman, yet friend to truth! Of soul sincere; In action faithful, and in honor clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end; Who gained no title, and who lost no friend.
Page 251 - And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings
Page 119 - Fieldland is opposed to woodland, and means land where the trees have been felled.
Page 44 - Arms: Argent, a lion passant, sable; on a chief of the second, three mullets of the first. Crest: Out of the clouds proper, a demi-lion, rampant, sable, powdered with estoiles, argent, holding a globe, or.
Page 59 - French tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, because, he said, he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.
Page 122 - Field, has tendered his love to me. The question he has indeed proposed as concerning marriage, the which, as yet, I have not at present rejected, nor given much way to, nor do I intend to proceed, nor let out my affections too much towards him, till I have well considered the thing aud have yours and my friends advice and consent concerning it.
Page 196 - Gules, a cross flory between four trefoils slipped or CREST: An eagle's head, sable between two ostrich feathers, argent, all issuing out of a ducal coronet, or Burke's General Armoury also confirms the trefoils, but Hasted, in his History of Kent, says cinquefoils.
Page 234 - He helped to frame the Constitution of the United States, and was a member of the Cabinet.