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... labor and merits , of a man , who must rank , sooner or later , with the great and good of the world's people , there can be no question . And though in their creation , the skill and the polish of the workman may not be greatly admired ...
... labor and merits , of a man , who must rank , sooner or later , with the great and good of the world's people , there can be no question . And though in their creation , the skill and the polish of the workman may not be greatly admired ...
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... labor . It was a quiet rural region in which the scattered inhabitants all pur- sued the same simple avocation , and where but few incidents occurred to vary the quiet routine of each day . The house occupied an elevated site , and from ...
... labor . It was a quiet rural region in which the scattered inhabitants all pur- sued the same simple avocation , and where but few incidents occurred to vary the quiet routine of each day . The house occupied an elevated site , and from ...
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... labor , and an economical and frugal mode of life . " I well remem- ber , " he says , " the cold summer ( 1816 ) when we rose on the 18th of June to find the earth covered with a good inch of newly fallen snow ; when there was frost ...
... labor , and an economical and frugal mode of life . " I well remem- ber , " he says , " the cold summer ( 1816 ) when we rose on the 18th of June to find the earth covered with a good inch of newly fallen snow ; when there was frost ...
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... labor , to the sphere of the highest intellectual effort , and the position of a leader in political thought , and a prominent name in letters . But he is also fa- miliar , by actual experience , with the duties , the manners and the ...
... labor , to the sphere of the highest intellectual effort , and the position of a leader in political thought , and a prominent name in letters . But he is also fa- miliar , by actual experience , with the duties , the manners and the ...
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... labor and frugal care might have been happy had they not been made wretched by those men's dishonesty . They took my journal and probably read it ; they promised to pay for it , and defaulted , leaving me to pay my paper - maker , type ...
... labor and frugal care might have been happy had they not been made wretched by those men's dishonesty . They took my journal and probably read it ; they promised to pay for it , and defaulted , leaving me to pay my paper - maker , type ...
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Page 418 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 258 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and 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 258 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.
Page 407 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Page 164 - To whom it may concern : Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States...
Page 414 - States ; that the committee deem it highly dangerous and inexpedient to impair a provision wisely calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity of the northwestern country, and to give strength and security to that extensive frontier. In the salutary operation of this sagacious and benevolent restraint, it is believed that the inhabitants of Indiana will, at no very distant day, find ample remuneration for a temporary privation of labor and of emigration...
Page 494 - If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Page 575 - The civil service of the Government has become a mere instrument of partisan tyranny and personal ambition, and an object of selfish greed. It is a scandal and reproach upon free institutions, and breeds a demoralization dangerous to the perpetuity of republican government. We therefore regard a thorough reform of the civil service as one of the most pressing necessities of the hour...
Page 494 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need...
Page 465 - an endless significance lies in Work;" a man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seedfields rise instead, and stately cities ; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle and foul unwholesome desert thereby. Consider, how, even in the meanest sorts of...