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... friends , could only call his soul his own toward the end of his life , and then by a single but fatal misstep brought ruin upon the proper- ty his genius had created . Not , indeed , until the latter third of the last century did ...
... friends , could only call his soul his own toward the end of his life , and then by a single but fatal misstep brought ruin upon the proper- ty his genius had created . Not , indeed , until the latter third of the last century did ...
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... friends had approached me and conversed on these or indisputable fundamental questions , I had not refrained from stating my views , especially to those who had consulted me . It seemed to me proper that we should do so . I had ...
... friends had approached me and conversed on these or indisputable fundamental questions , I had not refrained from stating my views , especially to those who had consulted me . It seemed to me proper that we should do so . I had ...
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... friends are aware . I doubt if Grant himself knows . The radicals who distrust him are nev- ertheless courting him assiduously . Saturday , January 26 , 1867 . Congress does not make much pro- gress in the schemes of reconstruction and ...
... friends are aware . I doubt if Grant himself knows . The radicals who distrust him are nev- ertheless courting him assiduously . Saturday , January 26 , 1867 . Congress does not make much pro- gress in the schemes of reconstruction and ...
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... friends who were behind in the great hegira , imagination rouses itself . From the shadow of the past , long - van- ished yesterdays emerge . The West's wild , free , vivid days return . With its hardships , its heroism , its romance ...
... friends who were behind in the great hegira , imagination rouses itself . From the shadow of the past , long - van- ished yesterdays emerge . The West's wild , free , vivid days return . With its hardships , its heroism , its romance ...
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... friend had put things in books . In nearly every volume I found pressed flowers , remem- brance - cards , or the notes and ques- tions of the student and teacher , all reminding me of the friend who was gone . And yet , when I came upon ...
... friend had put things in books . In nearly every volume I found pressed flowers , remem- brance - cards , or the notes and ques- tions of the student and teacher , all reminding me of the friend who was gone . And yet , when I came upon ...
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Page 266 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 56 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 92 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 322 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 56 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 609 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 176 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save 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 714 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 172 - Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.
Page 92 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.