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... mind . Hence the failure of those who give dates and names from their unaided recollections . If I do not fall into this error in these familiar sketches , it will be be- cause I shall adventure nothing calculated to give offense , noth ...
... mind . Hence the failure of those who give dates and names from their unaided recollections . If I do not fall into this error in these familiar sketches , it will be be- cause I shall adventure nothing calculated to give offense , noth ...
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... mind was far from clear as to the justice of the course of my party in regard to Kansas , and I made no concealment of my doubts . The angry protests of the North against that contem- plated villainy were being heard in the elections ...
... mind was far from clear as to the justice of the course of my party in regard to Kansas , and I made no concealment of my doubts . The angry protests of the North against that contem- plated villainy were being heard in the elections ...
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... mind teemed with " points . " I never spent an hour with him which did not furnish me with new ideas . He grasped and understood most questions thoroughly . When he read was always a mystery . Social to a degree , dining out almost ...
... mind teemed with " points . " I never spent an hour with him which did not furnish me with new ideas . He grasped and understood most questions thoroughly . When he read was always a mystery . Social to a degree , dining out almost ...
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... minds so often reared among them . His memorable words in reply to the haughty Hammond of South Carolina , on the 22d of March , 1858 , after the latter had spoken of the producing class of the North as the " mudsills " of society ...
... minds so often reared among them . His memorable words in reply to the haughty Hammond of South Carolina , on the 22d of March , 1858 , after the latter had spoken of the producing class of the North as the " mudsills " of society ...
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... mind . But he was too interesting a character to be neglected by the able ultras of the South . They saw in his winning manners , attractive appear- ance , and rare talent for public affairs , exactly the elements . they needed in their ...
... mind . But he was too interesting a character to be neglected by the able ultras of the South . They saw in his winning manners , attractive appear- ance , and rare talent for public affairs , exactly the elements . they needed in their ...
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Page 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 12 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 445 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHBOP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 169 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
Page 245 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.