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... heard of . The saying of the great bard , " If money go before , All ways do open lie , " awaited its verification in a later and more civilized period . As late even as 1858 , when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate ...
... heard of . The saying of the great bard , " If money go before , All ways do open lie , " awaited its verification in a later and more civilized period . As late even as 1858 , when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate ...
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... heard and did not understand , such as precedent , principle , and the like . The great and real pacifier of the world was the lawyer . His parchment took the place of the battle - field . The flow of his ink checked the flow of blood ...
... heard and did not understand , such as precedent , principle , and the like . The great and real pacifier of the world was the lawyer . His parchment took the place of the battle - field . The flow of his ink checked the flow of blood ...
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... heard more brilliant conversation than that at our table , in which the chief participants were Gail Hamilton , Bishop Quintard , General Hancock , Senator Maxey , and Mr. Blaine . The last named , " upon the plain highway of talk ...
... heard more brilliant conversation than that at our table , in which the chief participants were Gail Hamilton , Bishop Quintard , General Hancock , Senator Maxey , and Mr. Blaine . The last named , " upon the plain highway of talk ...
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... of Lamar still lingers in the memory of all who heard it . " The theme was worthy the orator : the orator , the theme . " - As a splendid tribute to a great tribune , as a plea for peace 28 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN.
... of Lamar still lingers in the memory of all who heard it . " The theme was worthy the orator : the orator , the theme . " - As a splendid tribute to a great tribune , as a plea for peace 28 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN.
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... is , " the surest poison is time . " And yet , his feeble piping voice- now scarcely heard an arm's length away - was potent in the contentions DAVID DUDLEY FIELD of the great hall when he was 30 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN.
... is , " the surest poison is time . " And yet , his feeble piping voice- now scarcely heard an arm's length away - was potent in the contentions DAVID DUDLEY FIELD of the great hall when he was 30 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN.
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Page 90 - 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 81 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 189 - 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 103 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 92 - 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 252 - 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 84 - 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 84 - 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 235 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Page 236 - 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.