Banquet Given by the Maine State Bar Association to the Retiring Chief Justice, Wm. Penn WhitehouseKennebec Journal Company, 1913 - 133 pages |
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Page 107 - The Judicial Department comes home in its effects to every man's fireside : it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not, to the last degree important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience?
Page 82 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 100 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 119 - Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 99 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 55 - Let me live In my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — They are good, they are bad. they are weak, they are strong. Wise, foolish — so am I.
Page 65 - was born in Kentucky — Kentucky, the home of impassioned oratory : the home of Clay : the State of splendid women, of gallant men !"
Page 96 - They do credit to the court, the bar and the reporter : they show readiness in practice, liberality in principle, strong reason and legal learning : the method, too, is clear, and the language plain.
Page 65 - I heard the love of home oddly illustrated in Oregon, one night, in a country bar-room. Some well-dressed men, in a state of strong drink, were boasting of their respective places of nativity. "I...
Page 117 - I have a a letter in which he says, " I regret very much that I will be unable to attend the Convention of Health Officers at Rochester. I am overwhelmed with work, and cannot go to Rochester at that time. With best wishes for the success of the meeting, I am, very sincerely yours, Charles E. Hughes.