Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1873 - Statesmen |
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... character , and to know the peculiarities of every leading man in Congress and the country , and would play off many an innocent joke upon them . I will not attempt to repeat what has been so often described . There was also a sacred ...
... character , and to know the peculiarities of every leading man in Congress and the country , and would play off many an innocent joke upon them . I will not attempt to repeat what has been so often described . There was also a sacred ...
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... 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 concealed designs against the country ...
... 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 concealed designs against the country ...
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... a few weeks since , and found him as genial and as full of incident as he was when I first met , under his storied roof , the leading characters of the DINNER - TABLE WITS . 69 period - between 1846 68 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... a few weeks since , and found him as genial and as full of incident as he was when I first met , under his storied roof , the leading characters of the DINNER - TABLE WITS . 69 period - between 1846 68 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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... character to universal criticism . The executive session of the Senate is in many respects like the confidential meetings of the Odd Fellows , the Knights of Pythias , and the Masons , without partaking of any of the pe- culiar traits ...
... character to universal criticism . The executive session of the Senate is in many respects like the confidential meetings of the Odd Fellows , the Knights of Pythias , and the Masons , without partaking of any of the pe- culiar traits ...
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... character by himself , incomparable and unique . He was among the saddest of humanity , and yet his sense of the ridiculous was so keen that it bore him up from difficulties that would have broken down almost any other man . That he ...
... character by himself , incomparable and unique . He was among the saddest of humanity , and yet his sense of the ridiculous was so keen that it bore him up from difficulties that would have broken down almost any other man . That he ...
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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 171 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 12 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : 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 244 - I assure you and your mayor that I had hoped on this occasion, and upon all occasions during my life, that I shall do nothing inconsistent with the teachings of these holy and most sacred walls. I have never asked anything that does not breathe from those walls.
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 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 245 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
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 91 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
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...