The Beville Family of Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, and Several Allied Families, North and South

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Priv. print., 1917 - 212 sider
 

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Side 63 - The above instrument, consisting of two pages, was, at the date thereof, signed sealed published and declared, by the said Oliver Murray, as and for ^ his last will and testament, in presence of us, who, at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto Henry V.
Side 34 - I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate, wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner...
Side 34 - God therefore, calling to mind the mortality of the body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament...
Side 130 - For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
Side 156 - When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 61 - And as to my worldly estate, and all the property, real and personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease.
Side 107 - Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs, — Emerald twilights, — Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn; — Beautiful...
Side 112 - The lark, his lay who thrill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh ; Breeze, bird, and flower, confess the hour, But where is County Guy ? " The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear ; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born Cavalier.
Side 61 - I have strength and capacity so to do, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all other last wills and testaments, by me heretofore made.
Side 103 - ... matter, cause, or thing whatsoever from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents. "In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 26th day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

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