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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A noble life. (search)
A noble life. Address delivered at Tappahannock, Essex county, Va., July 17, 1899, presenting to Essex Court a portrait of Judge William Brockenbrough. by John P. McGUIRE. Ladies and Gentlemen: A Virginian in a Virginia assembly is always among friends; but for myself, and here in this county of Essex, as a wanderer returned to his home again, I stand among you and respectfully salute you all. In the far dawn of human history, the blind old bard of Chios, with mental vision doubly clear, surveyed the course of human life, and this true picture drew: Like leaves on trees, the race of men are found, Some green in youth, some withering on the ground. So generations in their course decay; These come to life, and others pass away. Countless as the leaves of the forest or the sands along the shore are the men who, in ages gone, have run their restless course on this round world, even as the busy ants run to and fro upon their hillock home. Brief parts the actors pla