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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... hands on . From his sixth to his tenth year , he lived , worked , read and went to school , in Amherst and the adjoining town of Bedford . Those who were then his neighbors and schoolmates there , have a lively recollection of the boy ...
... hands on . From his sixth to his tenth year , he lived , worked , read and went to school , in Amherst and the adjoining town of Bedford . Those who were then his neighbors and schoolmates there , have a lively recollection of the boy ...
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... hands from freez- ing " He adds , “ I lived at the next house , and I and my brothers often went down in the evening to play with him ; but he never would play with us till he had got his lessons . We could neither coax nor force him to ...
... hands from freez- ing " He adds , “ I lived at the next house , and I and my brothers often went down in the evening to play with him ; but he never would play with us till he had got his lessons . We could neither coax nor force him to ...
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... hands were at liberty . He kept in a secure place an ample supply of pine knots , and as soon as it was dark he would light one of these cheap and brilliant illuminators , put it on the back - log in the spacious fire - place , pile up ...
... hands were at liberty . He kept in a secure place an ample supply of pine knots , and as soon as it was dark he would light one of these cheap and brilliant illuminators , put it on the back - log in the spacious fire - place , pile up ...
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... hands . No visitor could be sent un- moistened away . No holiday could be celebrated without drinking- booths . At weddings , at christenings , at funerals , rum seemed to be the inducement that brought , and the tie that bound , the ...
... hands . No visitor could be sent un- moistened away . No holiday could be celebrated without drinking- booths . At weddings , at christenings , at funerals , rum seemed to be the inducement that brought , and the tie that bound , the ...
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... hands upon his father's property . His father had walked quietly off into the woods ; for , at that period , a man's person was not exempt from seizure . Horace had a vague idea that the men had come to rob them of all they possessed ...
... hands upon his father's property . His father had walked quietly off into the woods ; for , at that period , a man's person was not exempt from seizure . Horace had a vague idea that the men had come to rob them of all they possessed ...
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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.