The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth to the Present TimeJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1872 - 548 pages |
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... gave him an anxious nudge , and he would wake instantly , spell off his word , and drop asleep again in a moment . Horace went to school three terms in Londonderry , spending part of each year at home . I will state as nearly as ...
... gave him an anxious nudge , and he would wake instantly , spell off his word , and drop asleep again in a moment . Horace went to school three terms in Londonderry , spending part of each year at home . I will state as nearly as ...
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... gave a sheep and a load of hay to keep it on during the winter , thus adapting his benefactions to the various tastes of his juvenile friends . A clergyman , too , is spoken of , who took great interest in Horace , and gave him ...
... gave a sheep and a load of hay to keep it on during the winter , thus adapting his benefactions to the various tastes of his juvenile friends . A clergyman , too , is spoken of , who took great interest in Horace , and gave him ...
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... gave up his own farm , temporarily , and removed to another in the adjoining town of Bedford , which he cultivated on shares , and de- voted principally to the raising of hops . Misfortune still pursued him . His two years ' experience ...
... gave up his own farm , temporarily , and removed to another in the adjoining town of Bedford , which he cultivated on shares , and de- voted principally to the raising of hops . Misfortune still pursued him . His two years ' experience ...
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... gave up the hop - farm , poorer than ever . He removed back to his old home in Amherst . A little legal maneuvering or rascality on the part of a creditor , gave the finishing blow to his fortunes ; and , in the winter of 1821 , he gave ...
... gave up the hop - farm , poorer than ever . He removed back to his old home in Amherst . A little legal maneuvering or rascality on the part of a creditor , gave the finishing blow to his fortunes ; and , in the winter of 1821 , he gave ...
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... gave up his own farm , temporarily , and removed to another in the adjoining town of Bedford , which he cultivated on shares , and de- voted principally to the raising of hops . Misfortune still pursued him . His two years ' experience ...
... gave up his own farm , temporarily , and removed to another in the adjoining town of Bedford , which he cultivated on shares , and de- voted principally to the raising of hops . Misfortune still pursued him . His two years ' experience ...
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Page 314 - What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 72 - Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government; I wish them carried out; I ask nothing more...
Page 314 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was.
Page 314 - If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be any inferences •which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I
Page 45 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Page 135 - 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 9 - And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew.
Page 377 - Local self-government, with impartial suffrage, will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than any centralized power. The public welfare requires the supremacy of the civil over the military authority, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus. We demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with public order; for the State, self-government, and for the nation a return to the methods of peace and the constitutional limitations of power.
Page 314 - 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 323 - ' 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, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms, on other substantial and collateral points, and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe-conduct both ways.