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... equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedicated , can long endure . We are met on a great battle - field of that war ; we are met to dedicate a portion of it as ...
... equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedicated , can long endure . We are met on a great battle - field of that war ; we are met to dedicate a portion of it as ...
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... equal celebrity . His notes of the numerous dip- lomatic consultations and social reunions are charmingly writ- ten . He was in London when George the Third died ; saw the coronation of George the Fourth , July 20 , 1821 ; and was ...
... equal celebrity . His notes of the numerous dip- lomatic consultations and social reunions are charmingly writ- ten . He was in London when George the Third died ; saw the coronation of George the Fourth , July 20 , 1821 ; and was ...
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... equal rank from another post to re- port immediately to Governor Brough , and directed the delin- quent to await the decision of the department . As he took his leave , he grimly admitted that he had no idea that lightning could strike ...
... equal rank from another post to re- port immediately to Governor Brough , and directed the delin- quent to await the decision of the department . As he took his leave , he grimly admitted that he had no idea that lightning could strike ...
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... equal to the new and grave duties imposed upon him . When all was distrust and hesita- tion in Washington - before the bombardment of Sumter- and when it was doubted by many whether the North would agree to maintain the unity of the ...
... equal to the new and grave duties imposed upon him . When all was distrust and hesita- tion in Washington - before the bombardment of Sumter- and when it was doubted by many whether the North would agree to maintain the unity of the ...
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... equal to his friends - as he himself said of his great rival Harry Flood - and was more than equal to his foes . When he spoke , the infirmities and deformities of man disap- peared in a blaze of glory . His eloquence was more than hu ...
... equal to his friends - as he himself said of his great rival Harry Flood - and was more than equal to his foes . When he spoke , the infirmities and deformities of man disap- peared in a blaze of glory . His eloquence was more than hu ...
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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.