Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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... honor upon the literature and character of his native land , not we only , but all the country and all the world , know . He has performed this career , and is yet at such a period of life that I may venture something upon the char ...
... honor upon the literature and character of his native land , not we only , but all the country and all the world , know . He has performed this career , and is yet at such a period of life that I may venture something upon the char ...
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... honor . He was in no sense an enthusiast or a par- tisan , but all his convictions and impulses were for the Union . I was then engaged in a severe conflict with Mr. Buchanan's Administration . He sympathized with me , but he pleaded ...
... honor . He was in no sense an enthusiast or a par- tisan , but all his convictions and impulses were for the Union . I was then engaged in a severe conflict with Mr. Buchanan's Administration . He sympathized with me , but he pleaded ...
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... honor and triumph be the soil of our own Massachusetts . " Then came other invocations and appeals on the same sub- ject , varied by exquisite literary essays , some in the interest of the farmers , some in honor of the venerated dead ...
... honor and triumph be the soil of our own Massachusetts . " Then came other invocations and appeals on the same sub- ject , varied by exquisite literary essays , some in the interest of the farmers , some in honor of the venerated dead ...
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... honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain . That the nation shall , under God , have a new ...
... honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain . That the nation shall , under God , have a new ...
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... honored dead were buried with ap- propriate ceremonies . Captain Stockton was deeply affected , and his sympathy for the victims was not less sincere than the general feeling which acquitted him of all blame . These events took place in ...
... honored dead were buried with ap- propriate ceremonies . Captain Stockton was deeply affected , and his sympathy for the victims was not less sincere than the general feeling which acquitted him of all blame . These events took place in ...
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