The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 13; Volume 35Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1888 - American literature |
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... rest of the family , began to be troubled about the career of his half - brother George , who was , at fourteen , shy , awkward , and , on the whole , rather a difficult problem for his anxious friends to solve . The Widow Washington ...
... rest of the family , began to be troubled about the career of his half - brother George , who was , at fourteen , shy , awkward , and , on the whole , rather a difficult problem for his anxious friends to solve . The Widow Washington ...
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... rest of the household stuff , from London . On this piazza the family commonly sat , Mrs. Washington with her knitting , the others va- riously occupied , and here the great man walked to and fro , pondering in his maturity over the ...
... rest of the household stuff , from London . On this piazza the family commonly sat , Mrs. Washington with her knitting , the others va- riously occupied , and here the great man walked to and fro , pondering in his maturity over the ...
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... rest of the royal family . A quiet retrospective air marks the better quarters of the old town , gradually shading down , through shabby gentility and decent poverty , into the squalor and sordid wretch- edness which one finds along the ...
... rest of the royal family . A quiet retrospective air marks the better quarters of the old town , gradually shading down , through shabby gentility and decent poverty , into the squalor and sordid wretch- edness which one finds along the ...
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... rest of the world , but is first for us , - is here in our own country , in the midst of us , - delighting us , and forming the taste of our children . As the first step in the resuscitation of sculpture was the abandonment of the ...
... rest of the world , but is first for us , - is here in our own country , in the midst of us , - delighting us , and forming the taste of our children . As the first step in the resuscitation of sculpture was the abandonment of the ...
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... rest uv it by hirin ' . She sets a mighty sight uv store by Tom . Talks about ' im by the hour . She ' lows he'll be a - gittin ' to Congress nex ' thing . But I d ' know " - and here Mely shook her head . " High nose stumped his toes ...
... rest uv it by hirin ' . She sets a mighty sight uv store by Tom . Talks about ' im by the hour . She ' lows he'll be a - gittin ' to Congress nex ' thing . But I d ' know " - and here Mely shook her head . " High nose stumped his toes ...
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Page 280 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 284 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 285 - 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 angels of our nature.
Page 283 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the .Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 284 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 281 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 282 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 284 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 284 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 281 - The Union is much older than the Constitution/ It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.