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" Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience; A friend like this would suit my sorrows well. "
Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or, Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters ... - Page 110
by John Strang - 1856 - 599 pages
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...Swift. Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, and worthily becomes his silver locks, who wears "q ] # " " # " " " " \ # — Rome. Toward old age both men and women hang to life by their habits.— Charlee Re^de. Probably...
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Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of ...

Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction - 1909 - 462 pages
...fraternal deportment. He will be long remembered as one of whom it may be well said: "Age sat with kindly grace upon his visage, And worthily became his silver...Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." For the last four years his health and strength failed him, and he was confined to his home, wherein...
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Proceedings of the ... Council of Deliberation

Freemasons. Massachusetts. Scottish rite - 1910 - 1220 pages
...Hotel Brunswick, November 17, 1909. He will be long remembered as one of whom it may well be said: "He wore the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." In the various positions of honor and responsibility which he so ably filled, his unfailing courtesy...
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Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of ...

Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction - 1910 - 526 pages
...Hotel Brunswick, November 17, 1909. He will be long remembered as one of whom it may well be said: "He wore the marks of many years well spent. Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." In the various positions of honor and responsibility which he so ably filled, his unfailing courtesy...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...aspect ! Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily become his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. 3648 Rowe : Jane Shore. Act I. Sc. 2. When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 26

1844 - 676 pages
...— " Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." How exceedingly important, in the judgment of the Jewish legis- . lator, was the attainment of longevity,...
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Life Jottings of an Old Edinburgh Citizen

John Hay Athole Macdonald - 1915 - 658 pages
...THIRTY-SIX "Age sits with decent grace upon her visage, And worthily becomes her silver locks, She wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience" ROWE. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX 1887 IN 1887, Edinburgh took its part inthejoyful celebrations of Queen Victoria's...
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Types of English Drama, 1660-1780

David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 pages
...aspect ! 20 Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears my heart: come, uncase, strip, and go naked out of the world as you came into't. VA ; 24 A friend like this would suit my sorrows well. (To DUMONT) Fortune, I fear me, sir. has meant...
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Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis, Volume 1

Eron Rowland - 1927 - 544 pages
...Palmerston. Age did not seem to dull their sympathies nor impair their mental and moral qualities. They wore the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience,' and their wit and charm of manner placed them at sixty years of age, or more, only a few minutes behind...
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The Medico-legal Journal, Volume 28

Clark Bell - 1910 - 294 pages
...Rowe : "Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He bears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue truth well tried and wise experience." Tully says of old age: — "I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conevrsation,...
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