Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women with Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading ThinkersWilliam C. King |
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... Congress for aid to practically apply for public use his discovery on a larger scale than he could then do ; of the grant , in jest , in the closing moment of the 27th Congress of an appropriation of $ 30,000 , given largely to stop his ...
... Congress for aid to practically apply for public use his discovery on a larger scale than he could then do ; of the grant , in jest , in the closing moment of the 27th Congress of an appropriation of $ 30,000 , given largely to stop his ...
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... Congress were ringing with the fierce invectives , threats of personal violence , and oaths of fearful import , hurled by the men of the South against all who dared question the right of the demand of slavery to rule the land . Five ...
... Congress were ringing with the fierce invectives , threats of personal violence , and oaths of fearful import , hurled by the men of the South against all who dared question the right of the demand of slavery to rule the land . Five ...
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... Congress within six years . His companion generously laughed at what he imagined was a fond conceit . Said the other , " If I did not believe that I shall be a member of Congress within six years from to - day 1 would immediately leave ...
... Congress within six years . His companion generously laughed at what he imagined was a fond conceit . Said the other , " If I did not believe that I shall be a member of Congress within six years from to - day 1 would immediately leave ...
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... Congress , senator , and envoy to France , and his country's greatest constitutional lawyer , did not think it belittled him to carry from the market his family supplies . On one occasion , a pompous young fellow was loudly bewailing ...
... Congress , senator , and envoy to France , and his country's greatest constitutional lawyer , did not think it belittled him to carry from the market his family supplies . On one occasion , a pompous young fellow was loudly bewailing ...
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... of his native county , and soon took his place as a most eloquent pleader and keen debater . In 1830 he was elected to Congress as representative , and he served six terms , and then from 1843 to 1851 was 107 BEGINNING AT THE BOTTOM .
... of his native county , and soon took his place as a most eloquent pleader and keen debater . In 1830 he was elected to Congress as representative , and he served six terms , and then from 1843 to 1851 was 107 BEGINNING AT THE BOTTOM .
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Page 262 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Page 128 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 450 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Page 207 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 245 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 326 - Christ, and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ, to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known, by the church, the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord ; in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Page 122 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 489 - CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 257 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Page 378 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.