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... poetic writings , was chosen to do the work on account of his genius for historic treatment , combined with a broad and gen- erous spirit , which was a guaranty against any offen- sive sectionalism . How well he has done his work has ...
... poetic writings , was chosen to do the work on account of his genius for historic treatment , combined with a broad and gen- erous spirit , which was a guaranty against any offen- sive sectionalism . How well he has done his work has ...
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... poets as Byron and Tennyson , and praised by statesmen like Lord Brougham and Gladstone . And indeed he is one of the most wonderful fig- ures of all time . Unusually modest , he was fearless and heroic ; scrupulous to a farthing in ...
... poets as Byron and Tennyson , and praised by statesmen like Lord Brougham and Gladstone . And indeed he is one of the most wonderful fig- ures of all time . Unusually modest , he was fearless and heroic ; scrupulous to a farthing in ...
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... poet Burns . It is impossible , he says , for men to believe that the man , the mere man , toiling along by their side through the poor jostlings of existence , can be made of finer clay than themselves . At last his fame begins to ...
... poet Burns . It is impossible , he says , for men to believe that the man , the mere man , toiling along by their side through the poor jostlings of existence , can be made of finer clay than themselves . At last his fame begins to ...
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... poet's averment that honor and fame from no condition rise . It is recorded that he married when about eighteen years of age . This is probably true , as at the battle of King's Mountain , in 1780 , when only thirty - five years of age ...
... poet's averment that honor and fame from no condition rise . It is recorded that he married when about eighteen years of age . This is probably true , as at the battle of King's Mountain , in 1780 , when only thirty - five years of age ...
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... poet . Poe declared that Kennedy was his first friend , and that if it had not been for his good offices he would have died of starvation in Baltimore . Kennedy was elected to Congress several times , and was once Secretary of the Navy ...
... poet . Poe declared that Kennedy was his first friend , and that if it had not been for his good offices he would have died of starvation in Baltimore . Kennedy was elected to Congress several times , and was once Secretary of the Navy ...
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Page 131 - ... so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro may justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 149 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 4 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 18 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 149 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 221 - If he was wanted at Lima, he was on the Atlantic in the next fleet. If he was wanted at Bagdad, he was toiling through the desert with the next caravan. If his ministry was needed in some country where his life was more insecure than that of a wolf, where it was a crime to...
Page 12 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
Page 157 - With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home.
Page 154 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Page 217 - Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns to the wild moor where the...