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... repRESENTATIVES SECRETARY OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY CHRONICLE ) ...
... repRESENTATIVES SECRETARY OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY CHRONICLE ) ...
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... Representatives and Senators in the city , and thousands from the adjoining country , gathered to the obsequies . Bancroft's oration is a classic , as a few ex- tracts will prove , and it is simple justice to add that nothing comparable ...
... Representatives and Senators in the city , and thousands from the adjoining country , gathered to the obsequies . Bancroft's oration is a classic , as a few ex- tracts will prove , and it is simple justice to add that nothing comparable ...
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... representatives in the American Senate , where he sat under the auspices of Jefferson . " People of the District of Columbia , I should fail to do a duty on this occasion if I did not give utterance to your senti- ment of gratitude ...
... representatives in the American Senate , where he sat under the auspices of Jefferson . " People of the District of Columbia , I should fail to do a duty on this occasion if I did not give utterance to your senti- ment of gratitude ...
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... Representative in Congress from Tennes- see from 1823 to 1827. In 1829 he became Governor of that State , and resigned and went to live among the Indians , where he remained several years . It was during his Indian life and General ...
... Representative in Congress from Tennes- see from 1823 to 1827. In 1829 he became Governor of that State , and resigned and went to live among the Indians , where he remained several years . It was during his Indian life and General ...
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... representatives of the same heroic regiments and companies to which they were in- trusted . At the hands , General , of yourself , the ranking - officer of the volunteers of the commonwealth ( one of the earliest who accepted a ...
... representatives of the same heroic regiments and companies to which they were in- trusted . At the hands , General , of yourself , the ranking - officer of the volunteers of the commonwealth ( one of the earliest who accepted a ...
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Page 128 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 21 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 162 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 135 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 175 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 317 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 381 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Page 213 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 350 - ... to vary the name; for I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the King, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise.