With the arrival of his eightieth year, his activity and curiosity of intellect were certainly rather increased than abated.
His many and illustrious friends he had never forgotten, and to the last hour of a life, prolonged beyond his eightieth year, he possessed those interior feelings which can make even an old man an enthusiast.
The literary character has been fully occupied in theeightieth and the ninetieth year of life.
When he reached his eightieth birthday, in 1866, he was told in the evening that a few friends had called, and on entering the parlor to greet them he was entirely surprised.
Wolff, who dined with him at Weimar, when he was in his eightieth year, was surprised by his appetite and by the quantity of wine he drank.
He reached a serene old age, and his activity did not relax until after his eightieth year, when he died.
Now it has been calculated as the result of careful observations, that the total light given by stars down to nine and a half magnitude is one-eightieth of full moonlight, though some make it much more.
The last two works were composed after Auber had passed his eightieth year.
Though Harvey lived to his eightieth year, he hardly witnessed his great discovery established before he died; and it has been said, that he was the only one of his contemporaries who lived to see it in some repute.
It was in his eightieth year that Stowe at length received a public acknowledgment of his services, which will appear to us of a very extraordinary nature.
She started for New York November 6 to be present at an event to which she had looked forward with more pleasure than to anything of that nature in all her life--the celebration of the eightieth birthday of Mrs. Stanton.
I am resolved to be a home-body the coming year, with the exception of attending the celebration of Mrs. Stanton's eightieth birthday and our regular Washington convention.
Anthony; a heroine of hard work who, when her own eightieth birthday shall roll round, will likewise deserve a national ovation, at which she should not inappropriately receive the old Roman crown of oak.
Whittier himself is reported as saying on his eightieth birthday: "When a man is eighty years old, it is time to give up active mental work.
When he was nearing his eightieth year, she was about to complete her sixteenth.
His thirst for knowledge, worth, and lore— His heart was ever there— This worthy old philanthropist, Beyond his eightieth year!
The Grand Old Man of Oakworth, Beyond his eightieth year.
I have seldom beheld a handsomer man, and his port was kingly, even when he had passed his eightieth birthday.
While she, as an old admirer—who up to his eightieth year loved to visit my mother that he might talk of his early love—used to declare, “sang like an angel just down from heaven.
Solon, when he saw Sardis, was close upon his eightieth year.
That is, it would have shown the twenty-first hour after midnight - precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.
The General Grant passed, on the 23rd of November, the one hundred and eightieth meridian, and was at the very antipodes of London.
I dare say I told you of the Proposal to congratulate Carlyle on his eightieth Birthday; and probably some Newspaper has told you of the Address, and the Medal, and the White Satin Roll to which our eighty names were to be attached.
The German Emperor, in presenting a Sword of Honour to Prince Bismarck, in celebration of his eightieth birthday.
And thus ended the eightieth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
And as the morn began to dawn Shahrazad held her peace till The end of the Six Hundred and Eightieth Night.
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