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... to explain it . That letter was seized upon by the Southern leaders , who knew my settled determina- tion to resist the further encroachments of slavery ; and they FRANKLIN PIERCE . 13 used it with so much effect 12 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN.
... to explain it . That letter was seized upon by the Southern leaders , who knew my settled determina- tion to resist the further encroachments of slavery ; and they FRANKLIN PIERCE . 13 used it with so much effect 12 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN.
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... tion of history . I remember a dinner - party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no diary to keep fresh in my heart . It took place at my residence , and in the house now known ...
... tion of history . I remember a dinner - party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no diary to keep fresh in my heart . It took place at my residence , and in the house now known ...
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... tion . He had none of the small arts that would dwarf great enterprises by counting the profits of those who led in them . He justly believed that where there are large risks there should be large recompense . I remember - who of middle ...
... tion . He had none of the small arts that would dwarf great enterprises by counting the profits of those who led in them . He justly believed that where there are large risks there should be large recompense . I remember - who of middle ...
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... tion by being an honest man instead of a rascal . " Broderick was one of the few " self - made " men who did not boast of having been a mechanic . He was not like a famous ex - President who delighted to speak of his rise from the ...
... tion by being an honest man instead of a rascal . " Broderick was one of the few " self - made " men who did not boast of having been a mechanic . He was not like a famous ex - President who delighted to speak of his rise from the ...
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... tion . I would not have alluded to this if it were not for the re- marks of the Senator from South Carolina ; and the thousands who know that I am the son of an artisan and have been a me- chanic , would feel disappointed in me if I did ...
... tion . I would not have alluded to this if it were not for the re- marks of the Senator from South Carolina ; and the thousands who know that I am the son of an artisan and have been a me- chanic , would feel disappointed in me if I did ...
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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.