In Memoriam: Testimonials to the Life and Character of the Late Francis Jackson ...R.F. Wallcut, 1861 - 36 pages |
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Page 6 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Not tied unto the world with care Of public fame, or private breath...
Page 11 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 7 - Such was our friend. Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man ! — He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace ; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still...
Page 4 - 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.
Page 14 - The energy of his determination was so great, that if, instead of being habitual, it had been shown only for a short time on particular occasions, it would have appeared a vehement impetuosity; but by being unintermitted, it had an equability of manner which scarcely appeared to exceed the tone of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation.
Page 14 - Rome under such a despotic consciousness of duty, as to refuse himself time for surveying the magnificence of its ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do ; and that he, who would do some great thing in this short life...
Page 14 - As his method referred every thing he did and thought to the end, and as his exertion did not relax for a moment, he made the trial, so seldom made, what is the utmost effect which may be granted to the last possible efforts of a human agent: and therefore what he did not accomplish, he might conclude to be placed beyond the sphere of mortal activity, and calmly leave to the immediate disposal of Providence.
Page 14 - ... anything like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Page 10 - If a large majority of this community choose to turn a deaf ear to the wrongs which are inflicted upon their countrymen in other portions of. the land, — if they are content to turn away from the sight of oppression, and ' pass by on the other side,
Page 7 - His daily prayer, far better understood In acts than words, was simply DOING GOOD. So calm, so constant was his rectitude, That by his loss aloue we know its worth, And feel how true a man has walked with us on earth.