Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 54
... stands to his credit that , in his desperate canvass for the Presidency against General Grant in 1868 , he displayed un- common capacity , and received a very large vote , notwithstand- ing the ruinous theories to which he allowed ...
... stands to his credit that , in his desperate canvass for the Presidency against General Grant in 1868 , he displayed un- common capacity , and received a very large vote , notwithstand- ing the ruinous theories to which he allowed ...
Page 73
... standing there upon the deck - the same calm , intrepid , noble heart . His clear , quick eye runs along the shore , and fills with the light which flashes from the bayonets of the people . A moment's pause ! and then , amidst the roar ...
... standing there upon the deck - the same calm , intrepid , noble heart . His clear , quick eye runs along the shore , and fills with the light which flashes from the bayonets of the people . A moment's pause ! and then , amidst the roar ...
Page 76
... stand pre- pared to resist the temporal power of the Pope as strongly as it is more than probable I would have done had I lived in the days of Adrian the Fourth , when , according to Augustine Thier- ry and others , his Holiness ...
... stand pre- pared to resist the temporal power of the Pope as strongly as it is more than probable I would have done had I lived in the days of Adrian the Fourth , when , according to Augustine Thier- ry and others , his Holiness ...
Page 109
... standing at the door of his house in Andover , Mas- sachusetts , May 23 , 1783 , aged fifty - seven . Harrison Gray Otis , born 1765 and died 1848 , a nephew of the former , and son of Samuel Allyne Otis , the first secretary of the ...
... standing at the door of his house in Andover , Mas- sachusetts , May 23 , 1783 , aged fifty - seven . Harrison Gray Otis , born 1765 and died 1848 , a nephew of the former , and son of Samuel Allyne Otis , the first secretary of the ...
Page 122
... stand upon this bank and shoal of time , and watch his figure disappearing in the mysterious future , have only to hope that when our time has come we shall meet it as bravely and as happily as Morton McMichael . " XVI . THE FIVE ...
... stand upon this bank and shoal of time , and watch his figure disappearing in the mysterious future , have only to hope that when our time has come we shall meet it as bravely and as happily as Morton McMichael . " XVI . THE FIVE ...
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