 | Mormon Church - 1903 - 480 pages
...omissions of the administration. Lincoln heard: them patiently, and then replied: "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold and you...Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable or keep on shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter; Blondin, stoop a little more;... | |
 | John Charlton - Canada - 1905 - 524 pages
...commission of the administration. The president heard them patiently, and then replied: "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you...across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the rope or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter. Blondin, stoop a little more.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pages
...patience to a delegation, the President said: " That reminds me of Blondin the acrobat. Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it on the back of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 pages
...omissions of the Administration. The President heard them patiently, and then replied: "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you...Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more... | |
 | Walter Dwight Moody - Sales personnel - 1907 - 318 pages
...of the Administration. President Lincoln heard them patiently, and then replied: "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you...Niagara River on a rope; would you shake the cable or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter!' 'Blondin, stoop a little more!'... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...omissions of the Administration. The President heard them patiently, and then replied : "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you...Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...excited and troubled about the commissions or omissions of the Administration.) Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you...Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him, "Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stcop a little more... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...omissions of the Administration. The President heard them patiently, and then replied: "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you...Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more... | |
 | 1908 - 572 pages
...had this to say to a number of gentlemen: "Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth were in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin...Niagara River on a rope; would you shake the cable, or keep snouting out to him: 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter! Blondin, stoop a little more —... | |
 | James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...in commanders and plans and policies. "Gentlemen," he said to one delegation of advisers, "suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry 230 across the Niagara River on a rope. Would you shake the cable or keep shouting at him, ' Blondin,... | |
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Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more — go a little faster — lean a little more to the north — lean a little more to the south? 
