Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... friends and party as was Henry Clay . Words are meaningless when the attempt is made to express the idolatry of the Whigs of his own State for their great chief- tain . For a lifetime he knew no rival . His wish was law to his followers ...
... friends and party as was Henry Clay . Words are meaningless when the attempt is made to express the idolatry of the Whigs of his own State for their great chief- tain . For a lifetime he knew no rival . His wish was law to his followers ...
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... friend and former preceptor , John T. Stuart . That evening it was my good fortune to hear Mr. Lincoln address a political meeting at the old Courthouse in advocacy of the election of General Winfield Scott to the Presidency . The ...
... friend and former preceptor , John T. Stuart . That evening it was my good fortune to hear Mr. Lincoln address a political meeting at the old Courthouse in advocacy of the election of General Winfield Scott to the Presidency . The ...
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... friends of Hayes were in the majority in the Senate ; those of Tilden , in the House . With conflicting certificates , both purporting to give the correct vote from each of the States named , and no lawful authority existing to ...
... friends of Hayes were in the majority in the Senate ; those of Tilden , in the House . With conflicting certificates , both purporting to give the correct vote from each of the States named , and no lawful authority existing to ...
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... friends of Mr. Tilden , and a heated partisan debate resulted , and during this debate I spoke as follows : " When this Congress assembled in December , it wit- nessed the American people from one end of the country - to the other ...
... friends of Mr. Tilden , and a heated partisan debate resulted , and during this debate I spoke as follows : " When this Congress assembled in December , it wit- nessed the American people from one end of the country - to the other ...
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... friend more ardent in its advocacy than myself . I believed it to be a measure in the interest of peace . I believed that those who framed it , as well as those who gave it their support upon the floor , were honest in their statements ...
... friend more ardent in its advocacy than myself . I believed it to be a measure in the interest of peace . I believed that those who framed it , as well as those who gave it their support upon the floor , were honest in their statements ...
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Page 124 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him: The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Page 251 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 126 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better...
Page 320 - Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 118 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 118 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 305 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Page 306 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 377 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 86 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.