Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir ...Houghton Mifflin, 1883 - Journalists |
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Page 491 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 67 - I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have...
Page 10 - I KNEW by the smoke, that so gracefully curl'd 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 67 - Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt His favors to us with so profuse a hand.
Page 627 - The more I reflect upon the subject, the more I am convinced that positive instruction, even of a religious character, is much over-rated. The education of man, and above all of a Christian, is the education of duty, which is most forcibly taught by the business and concerns of life, of which, even for children, especially the children of the poor, book-learning...
Page 455 - In 1894, two years after his admission to the bar, he became a member of the law firm of Graff and Blauvelt, which lasted for twelve years until it was dissolved in 1906 by the death of Mr.
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Page 484 - Tippecanoe and Tyler too; And with them we '11 beat little Van, Van, Van, Van is a used up man ; And with them we '11 beat little Van.
Page 630 - I am under the necessity of consulting the temper of parties and people on this side of the water quite as much as the temper of parties and people in England. If I had been as tame as you think would have been wise in my treatment of affaire with that country, I should have had no standing in my own.
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