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... whole chapters of that life in which Washing- ton's name is not mentioned . More than half of it is a history of the United States , for the years when Washington was commander - in - chief of her army , or was President . On the other ...
... whole chapters of that life in which Washing- ton's name is not mentioned . More than half of it is a history of the United States , for the years when Washington was commander - in - chief of her army , or was President . On the other ...
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... whole valley of the Connecticut , the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut ordered out every boy who was above the age of fifteen to meet the invading force . If he could carry a musket , the boy was old enough and big enough ...
... whole valley of the Connecticut , the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut ordered out every boy who was above the age of fifteen to meet the invading force . If he could carry a musket , the boy was old enough and big enough ...
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... whole week in Philadelphia before he could get another opportunity to exhibit his span . Washington , having inherited a large landed estate in Virginia , was , as a matter of course , a slaveholder . The whole number which he held at ...
... whole week in Philadelphia before he could get another opportunity to exhibit his span . Washington , having inherited a large landed estate in Virginia , was , as a matter of course , a slaveholder . The whole number which he held at ...
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... whole stock of cash then consisted of a Dutch dollar and about a shilling's worth of coppers . His first appearance in Philadelphia , about eight o'clock on a Sunday morning , was certainly striking . A youth between seventeen and ...
... whole stock of cash then consisted of a Dutch dollar and about a shilling's worth of coppers . His first appearance in Philadelphia , about eight o'clock on a Sunday morning , was certainly striking . A youth between seventeen and ...
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... whole return was about £ 1500 , and that mainly from Canada and the West Indies . In 1767 Franklin visited Paris . Though Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act , it nevertheless insisted on its right to tax the colonies . The Duty Act ...
... whole return was about £ 1500 , and that mainly from Canada and the West Indies . In 1767 Franklin visited Paris . Though Parliament had repealed the Stamp Act , it nevertheless insisted on its right to tax the colonies . The Duty Act ...
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Page 238 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 200 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 200 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent! on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced,* its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing...
Page 103 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Page 668 - O Beautiful ! my Country ! ours once more ! Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair O'er such sweet brows as never other wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare ? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee ; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever...
Page 85 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 250 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 61 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father, when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 63 - In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.
Page 200 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.