Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen2Harper & Brothers, 1881 - 444 páginas |
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... England took longer than a journey to Russia to - day , he pronounced a sermon in the Capitol which literally took the scholars and statesmen by storm . James Madison was President , with John Quincy Adams Secretary of State . Joseph ...
... England took longer than a journey to Russia to - day , he pronounced a sermon in the Capitol which literally took the scholars and statesmen by storm . James Madison was President , with John Quincy Adams Secretary of State . Joseph ...
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... England , felt the uprising in France . The overthrow of the Mexican arms ; the election of General Taylor to the Presidency ; the acquisition of California ; the fiery speeches of Thomas Francis Meagher ; the meteor career of Kossuth ...
... England , felt the uprising in France . The overthrow of the Mexican arms ; the election of General Taylor to the Presidency ; the acquisition of California ; the fiery speeches of Thomas Francis Meagher ; the meteor career of Kossuth ...
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... England , if the French Republicans con- tinue to be as wise as they are to - day . For the first time since the Revolution of 1793 , the Old World is gravitating to Liber- ty . A new spirit moves on the face of the human sea - Peace ...
... England , if the French Republicans con- tinue to be as wise as they are to - day . For the first time since the Revolution of 1793 , the Old World is gravitating to Liber- ty . A new spirit moves on the face of the human sea - Peace ...
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... England should forget all past associations when the chivalry attacked the Republic : " Historians have loved to eulogize the manners and virtues , the glory and the benefits , of chivalry . Puritanism accom- plished for mankind far ...
... England should forget all past associations when the chivalry attacked the Republic : " Historians have loved to eulogize the manners and virtues , the glory and the benefits , of chivalry . Puritanism accom- plished for mankind far ...
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... England in 1846 ; and many a strong argument he wrote and spoke against the old Whigs . But when he became fully imbued with his " History of the United States , " now completed in ten imperial volumes , and in six of a different style ...
... England in 1846 ; and many a strong argument he wrote and spoke against the old Whigs . But when he became fully imbued with his " History of the United States , " now completed in ten imperial volumes , and in six of a different style ...
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Página 128 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Página 21 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Página 162 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Página 135 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 175 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Página 317 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 381 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Página 213 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 350 - ... to vary the name; for I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the King, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise.