Identifier: mydayreminiscenc00pryo (find matches)
Title: My day; reminiscences of a long life
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice, 1830-1912
Subjects: Pryor, Roger A. (Roger Atkinson), 1828-1919 United States -- Politics and government 1849-1877 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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begrateful that it was given to her son to build it. What can we do for you ? was asked of me byone of the managers at its opening. Nothing, Ianswered; the work is its own reward. But in thedaily prayers of your orphan children, let them askGods blessing upon all those who helped to givethis home to His homeless children. God, I humbly trust, did so bless them all — 446 My Day the eighty-year-old woman on the Pacific slope whosent a kerchief of her own making; the noble ladiesacross the Atlantic who promptly gave their honorednames and their money; the little boy whose curlyhead I could see, moving among the crowd solicit-ing pennies for the orphans ; the good woman whosehead had grown gray beneath the crown of Eng-land. But especially I wish, I pray, all blessings for theband of dear women who, coming often in rain andstorm, worked with me from morning until nightto help build a shelter for Galvestons homelessorphans. THZ NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILD£N FOUNDATIONS.
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Judge Roger A. Pryor in 1900. CHAPTER XLIII THE years which had brought me such interest-ing work were full years also to my dear gen-eral. In June, 1888, he delivered an addressto the graduating class at the Albany Law School —an address so inspiring, so highly commended at thetime, that it should not be lost. He had been allhis life intimately acquainted with the great legallights abroad. They had given him his first aspira-tions, and been his inspired teachers ever after.And yet he could truthfully tell the American stu-dent : — Nor need we travel abroad for examples andillustrations of forensic oratory in its highest perfec-tion ; for in the sublime passion of Patrick Henry,in the gorgeous vehemence of Choate, in the brilliantand abounding fancy of Prentiss, and in the majesticsimplicity of Webster, we find at home every beautyand every power of eloquence displayed with aneffect not inferior to the achievements of the mightymasters of antiquity. Diligently as he studied his pr

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