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... characters I have attempted to describe in these plain and unpretending " Anecdotes , " and I feel that I take no liberty in dedicating this volume to you . From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate ...
... characters I have attempted to describe in these plain and unpretending " Anecdotes , " and I feel that I take no liberty in dedicating this volume to you . From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate ...
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... , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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John Wien Forney. III . IN Theodore Parker's frank and sympathetic analysis of the character of George Washington , he speaks of his skill and good fortune in the selection and purchase of real estate , and his fine forecast of the ...
John Wien Forney. III . IN Theodore Parker's frank and sympathetic analysis of the character of George Washington , he speaks of his skill and good fortune in the selection and purchase of real estate , and his fine forecast of the ...
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... character . Born in the District of Columbia in 1818 , and killed in a duel in September of 1859 , his short career was a succession of strange events . Twenty - five years of it were spent in New York in the rudest scenes , and more ...
... character . Born in the District of Columbia in 1818 , and killed in a duel in September of 1859 , his short career was a succession of strange events . Twenty - five years of it were spent in New York in the rudest scenes , and more ...
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... character , ever threw off more sponta- neous jokes . Mr. Stevens rarely told a story . He was strong in repartee , in retort , in quiet interrogatory . He must have been terrible at the cross - examination of a witness . There is ...
... character , ever threw off more sponta- neous jokes . Mr. Stevens rarely told a story . He was strong in repartee , in retort , in quiet interrogatory . He must have been terrible at the cross - examination of a witness . There is ...
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Page 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 12 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, 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.
Page 245 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 445 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 91 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
Page 170 - We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.