Documents, Volume 20, Part 2, Issues 35-71The Board, 1853 - New York (N.Y.) |
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Albany street Aldermen and Commonalty amended amount appointed arrears assessment awarded B. B. Purdy BOARD OF ALDERMEN Broadway Brought forward building bulkhead Carried forward city and county Clerk Commissioner of Repairs Committee Comptroller contract contractor Corporation Court Croton Croton Aqueduct curb and gutter D. T. VALENTINE DANIEL WEBSTER death district DOCUMENT duty East river Eighth Avenue Railroad election eloquence favor of B. B. feet Greenwich street Harsin hereby Honorable Common Council hundred illustrious inches intellect JAMES FUREY January John June Kittleman labor laid land Marshfield Mayor memory ment mind nation North river orator ordinance owners paid parties passed patriotism persons pier Police Railroad regulating Repairs and Supplies resolution Resolved respect river sewer statesman Street Commissioner STREET DEPARTMENT thereof Third avenue Third Avenue Railroad thousand dollars tion Trinity place Troy street undersigned Ward Warrant in favor York دو
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Page 888 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 906 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 885 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 925 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page 840 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 883 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 791 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Neither let the mighty man glory in his might, Let not the rich man glory in his riches : But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he understandeth and knoweth me, That I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : For in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 910 - State prison, for not more than three years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment...
Page 785 - The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Page 831 - ... revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted forever from the memory of mankind ! [Mr.