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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... never known to injure the " side " on which he was chosen by missing a word , and it soon became a prime object at the spelling - school to get the first choice , because that enabled the lucky side to secure the powerful aid of Horace ...
... never known to injure the " side " on which he was chosen by missing a word , and it soon became a prime object at the spelling - school to get the first choice , because that enabled the lucky side to secure the powerful aid of Horace ...
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... never attended any but a district school , and it concerns us to know what manner of place it was , and what was its routine of exercises . The school - house stood in an open place , formed ( usually ) by the crossing of roads . It was ...
... never attended any but a district school , and it concerns us to know what manner of place it was , and what was its routine of exercises . The school - house stood in an open place , formed ( usually ) by the crossing of roads . It was ...
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... never afraid of the dark , could not be frightened by ghost - stories , never was abashed in speaking or reciting , was not to be overawed by supposed superiority of knowledge or rank , would talk up to the teacher and question his ...
... never afraid of the dark , could not be frightened by ghost - stories , never was abashed in speaking or reciting , was not to be overawed by supposed superiority of knowledge or rank , would talk up to the teacher and question his ...
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... never be shaken on a point which he had once clearly understood , but would stand to his opinion , and defend it against anybody and everybody - teacher , pastor , or public opinion . In New England , the sons of farmers begin to 16 ...
... never be shaken on a point which he had once clearly understood , but would stand to his opinion , and defend it against anybody and everybody - teacher , pastor , or public opinion . In New England , the sons of farmers begin to 16 ...
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... never distracting his own attention , or that of the fish , by convers ing with his companions . The consequence was that he would often catch more than all the rest of the party put together . Shoot ing was the favorite amusement of ...
... never distracting his own attention , or that of the fish , by convers ing with his companions . The consequence was that he would often catch more than all the rest of the party put together . Shoot ing was the favorite amusement of ...
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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.