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... not be set off properly against great thoughts expressed or great acts performed . Errors and weaknesses mar the man , but they can not qualify the greatness achieved . 297746 CONTENTS . RUFUS CHOATE , THE LAWYER FAGE DANIEL WEBSTER.
... not be set off properly against great thoughts expressed or great acts performed . Errors and weaknesses mar the man , but they can not qualify the greatness achieved . 297746 CONTENTS . RUFUS CHOATE , THE LAWYER FAGE DANIEL WEBSTER.
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The Statesman and the Soldier George Sewall Boutwell. 1 1 CONTENTS . FAGR RUFUS CHOATE , THE LAWYER I DANIEL.
The Statesman and the Soldier George Sewall Boutwell. 1 1 CONTENTS . FAGR RUFUS CHOATE , THE LAWYER I DANIEL.
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The Statesman and the Soldier George Sewall Boutwell. CONTENTS . RUFUS CHOATE , THE LAWYER FAGE DANIEL WEBSTER , THE STATESMAN 44 PRESIDENT LINCOLN , the Statesman anD LIBERATOR 90 GENERAL GRANT , THE SOLDIER and STATESMAN · 150 CALIFORNIA ...
The Statesman and the Soldier George Sewall Boutwell. CONTENTS . RUFUS CHOATE , THE LAWYER FAGE DANIEL WEBSTER , THE STATESMAN 44 PRESIDENT LINCOLN , the Statesman anD LIBERATOR 90 GENERAL GRANT , THE SOLDIER and STATESMAN · 150 CALIFORNIA ...
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... CHOATE . IF in imagination we can command the pres- ence of a man only less than six feet in height , with a full , deep breast , high and unseemly shoulders , hips and legs slender and in appearance weak , arms long , hands and feet ...
... CHOATE . IF in imagination we can command the pres- ence of a man only less than six feet in height , with a full , deep breast , high and unseemly shoulders , hips and legs slender and in appearance weak , arms long , hands and feet ...
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... Choate hear of it ! " His gestures seemed extravagant often , but they were justified usually by the wonderful rhetoric which he commanded and so used that it was ac- cepted as the natural , the inevitable ... CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE, THE LAWYER.
... Choate hear of it ! " His gestures seemed extravagant often , but they were justified usually by the wonderful rhetoric which he commanded and so used that it was ac- cepted as the natural , the inevitable ... CHOATE RUFUS CHOATE, THE LAWYER.
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Page 97 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 106 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 108 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 102 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 108 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 120 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 117 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 196 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...
Page 120 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation shall under God have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the 'earth...
Page 60 - Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke rose first from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.