This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...who " knew Mr. White, both in his daily walk and at his fireside for many years," writes of him: "His years exceeded the allotted time of the psalmist, and were not uneventful, for this was a busy, thoughtful, earnest life, one most singularly crowned with good thoughts, kind words, and good deeds for others. His ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...who " knew Mr. White, both in his daily walk and at his fireside for many years," writes of him: "His years exceeded the allotted time of the psalmist, and were not uneventful, for this was a busy, thoughtful, earnest life, one most singularly crowned with good thoughts, kind words, and good deeds for others. His kindness and generosity knew no limit, but he shrank from any house-top announcement of them, and his own left hand never knew what his right hand did. For himself or his own interests, immediate or remote, he never seemed to have a care or to entertain a thought. And he was a philosopher in the highest and best sense, because he seemed without an effort to turn towards him the silver lifting to every cloud. Troubles never appeared to trouble him, and obstacles that crushed most men made his spirits all the more buoyant, and in some marvellous way only seemed to put him in better trim for trying to surmount them. And this wonderful ever-present power was the well-earned result of a mind thoroughly intellectual and thoroughly disciplined, for he was a reading and a thinking man, and his mind was a large storehouse of valuable information. He was much interested in the city of Boston, in her commercial prosperity and business growth, and in her people. Nor was he limited to this pent-up Utica, for his mind was of broader scope, and took in, in an ardent patriotism and comprehensive grasp, not only our whole country, its politics, government, and people, and its future, but those of every European nation; for he read and remembered and thoroughly digested everything. He was a devoted admirer of Daniel Webster, and passed the last night of Webster's life with him at his bedside in Marshfield, and was with him at the last. Familiar with a...
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