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Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Pennington, Myles, 1814-1898
Subjects: Railroads Canals
Publisher: Toronto : Williamson
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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the channel of a laudable ambition, seemed to place within his
deserving reach ; and
" Inasmuch as the passing from earth of this strong soul to
where time is not, nor days, nor months, nor years—an everlast-
ing now— has left a gap in the ranks of the great army of his
co-workers and friends, by whom will be heard no more his burst
of humour and quaint conceit, his ready and abundant wit, which
scintilated from his quick brain like sun-flashes from polished
brass, his sometimes wholesale sarcasm, neither sparing in modest
criticism his friends, nor rending the cloak of their self-respect;
and
" Inasmuch as no longer will be heard the melody of song
which found expression in his rich voice, tunefully sympathetic
with and ever dear to his always eager listeners, nor longer will
be felt the magnetism of his manly nature attracting to itself the
quick response which mind gives to mind when inspiriting in-
vitation indicates the pathway to fields of mutual enjoyment: and
" Inasmuch as his native modesty bespoke a well-balanced
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JOHN BURTON

General Freight Agents. 189

mind, making his life like to a pendulum vibrating between the
steps of high ambition on the one hand and lowly self-apprecia-
tion on the other, and as his daily bearing, in his home regard-
fully affectionate; among his friends, acceptably equipoised ;
and in his business pursuits, broadly liberal and confident; chal-
lenged the admiration and esteem of all with whom he came in
contact; and as his pursuit of and familiarity with classic and
current literature had for him its delights and allurements,
rounding his life and stimulating his brain so that while pursuingh
is business with the unflinching exactitude of arduous require-
ment a charm was imparted to his intercourse with his fellows
and a permeating grace to his epistolary correspondence seldom
attained under the carking cares of business life ; therefore
" Resolved, That in his sudden and untimely death this asso-
ciation loses one of its most brilliant members, many of us a warm
personal friend, and all an associate endeared by the exhibit of

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