 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1866 - 784 pagina’s
...was read on board the American Ambassador's vessel, and " the coffin, with its precious freight, waa reverently passed over the side of the ship, and lowered...give up its dead." " Singular, and almost prophetic," says the author, " were some lines of a little poem written by Mr. Aitchison twelve years before, entitled... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1866 - 784 pagina’s
...his body to Shanghai — the burial service was read on board the American Ambassador's vessel, and " the coffin, with its precious freight, was reverently...give up its dead." " Singular, and almost prophetic," says the author, " were some lines of a little poem written by Mr. Aitchison twelve years before, entitled... | |
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Three days afterward — as it was found impossible to convey his body to Shanghai — the burial service was read on board the American Ambassador's vessel, and " the coffin, with its precious freight, was reverently passed over the side of the ship,... 