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... duty , and ten years and ten months unemployed . Of his fifty - eight years he had spent forty - eight years in the navy . And all these years of preparation seemed likely to lead to no great practical result . There was nothing but ...
... duty , and ten years and ten months unemployed . Of his fifty - eight years he had spent forty - eight years in the navy . And all these years of preparation seemed likely to lead to no great practical result . There was nothing but ...
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... duty , and lastly , the restless energy , the disdain of obstacles , the impatience of delay or hesitation , the disregard of danger , that stand forth in such prominence in the portrait , deeply en- graven on the loyal American heart ...
... duty , and lastly , the restless energy , the disdain of obstacles , the impatience of delay or hesitation , the disregard of danger , that stand forth in such prominence in the portrait , deeply en- graven on the loyal American heart ...
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... duty ; does all the cooking for his tent - mates and himself ; washes a shirt occasionally for tent - mate ; has his knapsack always ready to start at a moment's notice ; spends all day Sunday cleaning his gun ; can eat raw pork on a ...
... duty ; does all the cooking for his tent - mates and himself ; washes a shirt occasionally for tent - mate ; has his knapsack always ready to start at a moment's notice ; spends all day Sunday cleaning his gun ; can eat raw pork on a ...
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... duties , will make good the assertion . Let us begin with the Regula- tions , the vade mecum of the quartermaster , and the ... duty men ; postage on public service ; the expenses of courts - martial , of the pursuit and apprehension of ...
... duties , will make good the assertion . Let us begin with the Regula- tions , the vade mecum of the quartermaster , and the ... duty men ; postage on public service ; the expenses of courts - martial , of the pursuit and apprehension of ...
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... duty is to make himself more com- fortable ; his third duty , to make himself as comfortable as he can ; and his fourth duty , to make everybody else uncomfort- able ! But the story , if not apocryphal , is nevertheless so op- posed to ...
... duty is to make himself more com- fortable ; his third duty , to make himself as comfortable as he can ; and his fourth duty , to make everybody else uncomfort- able ! But the story , if not apocryphal , is nevertheless so op- posed to ...
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Page 315 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 573 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the sidearms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 515 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 323 - Though there were many giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself; I may likely add, alter, and see farther than my predecessors.
Page 244 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong. For them the voice...
Page 123 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Page 230 - We close our view of Bonaparte's character, by saying, that his original propensities, released from restraint, and pampered by indulgence, to a degree seldom allowed to mortals, grew up into a spirit of despotism as stern and absolute as ever usurped the human heart. The love of power and supremacy absorbed, consumed him. No other passion, no domestic attachment, no private friendship, no love of pleasure, no relish for letters or the arts, no human sympathy, no human weakness, divided his mind...
Page 321 - GENTLEMEN: — I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give...
Page 375 - You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
Page 320 - Talk thus to the marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you!