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Page 73
... face and to fear their constituency . Bound together by a solemn covenant not to reveal what transpires , they do exactly what pleases them most . I must say , with my frequent opportunities of observation , I have seen few who ever ...
... face and to fear their constituency . Bound together by a solemn covenant not to reveal what transpires , they do exactly what pleases them most . I must say , with my frequent opportunities of observation , I have seen few who ever ...
Page 79
... face . “ And , pausing now , her hand would feel , And then her face behold : " Why , mother , do you look so pale , And why are you so cold ? " " It had pleased God from the poor wretch His only friend to call ; Yet God was kind to him ...
... face . “ And , pausing now , her hand would feel , And then her face behold : " Why , mother , do you look so pale , And why are you so cold ? " " It had pleased God from the poor wretch His only friend to call ; Yet God was kind to him ...
Page 84
... face , ringing voice , and flashing eye , as he rolled forth these simple stanzas . They deserve to be repeated in every house- hold in the civilized world in this era of approaching peace and fraternization . Excuse me for reviving ...
... face , ringing voice , and flashing eye , as he rolled forth these simple stanzas . They deserve to be repeated in every house- hold in the civilized world in this era of approaching peace and fraternization . Excuse me for reviving ...
Page 93
... face , the form , the character , and history of James S. Jackson , of Kentucky , who sleeps with the blessed Union martyrs . The readers of these hasty anecdotes will perhaps recollect my reference to him on the night of my Mazeppa ...
... face , the form , the character , and history of James S. Jackson , of Kentucky , who sleeps with the blessed Union martyrs . The readers of these hasty anecdotes will perhaps recollect my reference to him on the night of my Mazeppa ...
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... legislative . His cheerful and buoyant temper , his bright face , genial , gentle manners , and , above all , the readiness with which he answered every request , and the grace with which he would say No , A RAILWAY POTENTATE. ...
... legislative . His cheerful and buoyant temper , his bright face , genial , gentle manners , and , above all , the readiness with which he answered every request , and the grace with which he would say No , A RAILWAY POTENTATE. ...
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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.