Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Leland Stanford, (a Senator from California): Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, September 16, 1893, and February 12, 1894 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 - Всего страниц: 126 |
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... vast . interests connected with railroad corporations on the Pacific coast is fully known and needs no elaboration or extended presentation . The crowning effort of his life - strikingly at variance with the conduct of the average ...
... vast . interests connected with railroad corporations on the Pacific coast is fully known and needs no elaboration or extended presentation . The crowning effort of his life - strikingly at variance with the conduct of the average ...
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... vast fortune , his real estate embracing over 80,000 acres of choice California lands , being in receipt of a large annual income , he was moved to devise means whereby others beside himself , and those who most need assistance , should ...
... vast fortune , his real estate embracing over 80,000 acres of choice California lands , being in receipt of a large annual income , he was moved to devise means whereby others beside himself , and those who most need assistance , should ...
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... vast wealth , from jovial schoolboy days to unusual triumphs as a financier , statesman , philanthropist . All this belongs properly to the historian , not to us here or now . In justice , therefore , to the name and memory of the ...
... vast wealth , from jovial schoolboy days to unusual triumphs as a financier , statesman , philanthropist . All this belongs properly to the historian , not to us here or now . In justice , therefore , to the name and memory of the ...
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... vast corporations of the land , with several of which he was prominently identified in a busi- ness way , but rather the great masses of producers , the farmers , the planters , and the wage - workers of the country . In his capacity as ...
... vast corporations of the land , with several of which he was prominently identified in a busi- ness way , but rather the great masses of producers , the farmers , the planters , and the wage - workers of the country . In his capacity as ...
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... vast region lying between the Rocky Mountains and the waters of the Pacific , with all its present elements of greatness and power , and unspeakable possibilities as to the future - have much reason to sincerely deplore , as they do ...
... vast region lying between the Rocky Mountains and the waters of the Pacific , with all its present elements of greatness and power , and unspeakable possibilities as to the future - have much reason to sincerely deplore , as they do ...
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accomplished ADDRESS admiration Albany American blessed C. P. Huntington career Central Pacific Railroad character Charles Crocker civil Congress construction crowning death of LELAND devotion dreams duties early earth earthly elected employés endowment enterprise eulogies faith father fellow-men FORD fortune governor of California Governor STANFORD grave happy heart honor hope human idea influence institution interest Josiah Stanford kindly knew land Lathrop leader Leland Stanford Junior lives mankind Mark Hopkins memory mighty mind monument mountains nation nature never noble ocean organized Pacific coast Pacific Ocean Palo Alto party patriotic philanthropist political possessed President railway Republican respect rich road seemed Senator STANFORD Sierra sorrow Speaker spirit STAN Stanford Junior University success sympathy thousands tion to-day transcontinental transcontinental railroad tribute Union Union Pacific Railroad United States Senator vast war governor Watervliet wealth West wife youth
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Стр. 96 - Who vice in all its pomp and power, can treat with just neglect; And piety, though clothed in rags, religiously respect. Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; And though he promise to his loss, he makes his promise good.
Стр. 12 - ... not sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Стр. 111 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man, for a
Стр. 12 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Стр. 96 - Tis he whose every thought and deed by rules of virtue moves. Whose generous tongue disdains to speak the thing his heart disproves.
Стр. 58 - Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air. Lo ! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days, The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
Стр. 95 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.
Стр. 58 - Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Стр. 12 - ... every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side of said road...
Стр. 13 - Nevada it was to meet and connect with the line of the Central Pacific Railroad of California, a corporation then existing under the laws of that State which, by this act, was authorized to construct a railroad and telegraph line from the Pacific coast at or near San Francisco or the navigable waters of the Sacramento River to the eastern boundary of...