Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... seat . It is needless to add that the resolution was imme- diately rejected by unanimous vote . Two - thirds of a century ago the Hon . John P. Kennedy wrote of the lawyers of his day : " The feelings , habits , and associations of the ...
... seat . It is needless to add that the resolution was imme- diately rejected by unanimous vote . Two - thirds of a century ago the Hon . John P. Kennedy wrote of the lawyers of his day : " The feelings , habits , and associations of the ...
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... seat was just across the aisle from that of Mr. Blaine . When introduced , I handed him letters of introduction from two of his college classmates , the Hon . Robert E. Williams and the Rev. John Y. Calhoun . After reading the letters ...
... seat was just across the aisle from that of Mr. Blaine . When introduced , I handed him letters of introduction from two of his college classmates , the Hon . Robert E. Williams and the Rev. John Y. Calhoun . After reading the letters ...
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... seat . While by no means taking the highest rank as a debater , he was familiar with the complicated rules governing the House , and his opinion challenged the highest respect . He and Mr. Blaine were the only members of that House who ...
... seat . While by no means taking the highest rank as a debater , he was familiar with the complicated rules governing the House , and his opinion challenged the highest respect . He and Mr. Blaine were the only members of that House who ...
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... seat in the House , and cast in his fortunes with the South . He was early selected a member of the Davis Cabinet , and continued to discharge the duties of Postmaster- General until the fall of the Confederacy . He was a citizen of ...
... seat in the House , and cast in his fortunes with the South . He was early selected a member of the Davis Cabinet , and continued to discharge the duties of Postmaster- General until the fall of the Confederacy . He was a citizen of ...
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... seat ! " The Hon . David Dudley Field , elected to fill a vacancy , was a Representative from the city of New York during the closing session of the forty - fourth Congress . He was an eminent lawyer , and , at the time , stood at the ...
... seat ! " The Hon . David Dudley Field , elected to fill a vacancy , was a Representative from the city of New York during the closing session of the forty - fourth Congress . He was an eminent lawyer , and , at the time , stood at the ...
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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.