Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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... living and the dead . Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as ...
... living and the dead . Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as ...
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... living ; " what Jared Sparks , his successor in the presidency of Harvard College , said of him in the North American Review for April , 1825 : " Professor Everett's recapitulatory remarks and closing reflections are uttered in a style ...
... living ; " what Jared Sparks , his successor in the presidency of Harvard College , said of him in the North American Review for April , 1825 : " Professor Everett's recapitulatory remarks and closing reflections are uttered in a style ...
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... The procession and crowd were im- mense , and included men of all parties and conditions . It was a cold and gloomy day , in sympathy , perhaps , with the mourn- ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living EDWARD EVERETT . 17.
... The procession and crowd were im- mense , and included men of all parties and conditions . It was a cold and gloomy day , in sympathy , perhaps , with the mourn- ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living EDWARD EVERETT . 17.
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John Wien Forney. ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living mass throbbing for the thousands of heroes who slept beneath the sod . On all sides stretched the battle - field ; and from Cemetery Hill the eloquent words of Everett ...
John Wien Forney. ful occasion , and with the hearts of the living mass throbbing for the thousands of heroes who slept beneath the sod . On all sides stretched the battle - field ; and from Cemetery Hill the eloquent words of Everett ...
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... 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 . It is for us , the living ...
... 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 . It is for us , the living ...
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