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... asked to a man who has impertinently rung at the door look . You feel in a few minutes how great a of a private house and asked to see the draw- thing it is to be a merchant tailor or a cloth- ing - room . If you have an introduction ...
... asked to a man who has impertinently rung at the door look . You feel in a few minutes how great a of a private house and asked to see the draw- thing it is to be a merchant tailor or a cloth- ing - room . If you have an introduction ...
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... asked why 1673 CEMN COURAGE C " ) ALDERMAN PERKINS JAMES WATNEYEST — or splendid piece of plate . The wood - carving in many is superb , - in none finer than in the Brewers ' Hall , and the combination of the dark color of old oak with ...
... asked why 1673 CEMN COURAGE C " ) ALDERMAN PERKINS JAMES WATNEYEST — or splendid piece of plate . The wood - carving in many is superb , - in none finer than in the Brewers ' Hall , and the combination of the dark color of old oak with ...
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... asked me since my re- turn from Russia are , " How did you manage to gain admittance to Siberian prisons and étapes , to make the acquaintance every- where of banished political offenders , and to get access to so many official ...
... asked me since my re- turn from Russia are , " How did you manage to gain admittance to Siberian prisons and étapes , to make the acquaintance every- where of banished political offenders , and to get access to so many official ...
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... ' Pears like it ' s a - fallin ' too- Dreamin ' we ' re all livin ' yet ' Mongst the Hills o ' Somerset ! James Whitcomb Riley . MONG the questions most fre- quently asked me since my 28 ' MONGST THE HILLS O ' SOMERSET .
... ' Pears like it ' s a - fallin ' too- Dreamin ' we ' re all livin ' yet ' Mongst the Hills o ' Somerset ! James Whitcomb Riley . MONG the questions most fre- quently asked me since my 28 ' MONGST THE HILLS O ' SOMERSET .
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... asked me since my re- turn from Russia are , " How did you manage to gain admittance to Siberian prisons and étapes , to make the acquaintance every- where of banished political offenders , and to get access to so many official ...
... asked me since my re- turn from Russia are , " How did you manage to gain admittance to Siberian prisons and étapes , to make the acquaintance every- where of banished political offenders , and to get access to so many official ...
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Page 413 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 50 - The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire...
Page 286 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 410 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet.
Page 413 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 394 - And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
Page 25 - I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes...
Page 409 - 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.
Page 396 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
Page 267 - The depression of the public mind consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.