Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen2Harper & Brothers, 1881 - 444 páginas |
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... Webster , who was in most things a highly contrasted character , summarized his friend and biographer as follows : " We all remember him - some of us personally ; myself , cer- tainly , with great interest - in his deliberations in the ...
... Webster , who was in most things a highly contrasted character , summarized his friend and biographer as follows : " We all remember him - some of us personally ; myself , cer- tainly , with great interest - in his deliberations in the ...
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... Webster wrote to Everett : " We now and then see stretching across the heavens a clear , blue , cerulean sky , with- out cloud or mist or haze . And such appears to me our ac- quaintance , from the time when I heard you for a week ...
... Webster wrote to Everett : " We now and then see stretching across the heavens a clear , blue , cerulean sky , with- out cloud or mist or haze . And such appears to me our ac- quaintance , from the time when I heard you for a week ...
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... Webster and Joseph Story ; we shall echo what Mr. Hayward said of him in the London Quarterly Review for December , 1840 : " Edward Everett is one of the most remarkable men living ; " what Jared Sparks , his successor in the presidency ...
... Webster and Joseph Story ; we shall echo what Mr. Hayward said of him in the London Quarterly Review for December , 1840 : " Edward Everett is one of the most remarkable men living ; " what Jared Sparks , his successor in the presidency ...
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... Webster is the Michael An- gelo of American oratory , Everett is the Raphael . " Justice Story , in 1840 , repeated ... Webster's condensation of the career of Edward Everett , printed above , gives a sufficient idea of the events ...
... Webster is the Michael An- gelo of American oratory , Everett is the Raphael . " Justice Story , in 1840 , repeated ... Webster's condensation of the career of Edward Everett , printed above , gives a sufficient idea of the events ...
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... Webster , from November , 1852 , to March , 1853 ; and United States Senator from that time until his retirement , on account of ill - health , in 1854. He ran as Vice - President with John Bell on the Conservative ticket in 1860. But ...
... Webster , from November , 1852 , to March , 1853 ; and United States Senator from that time until his retirement , on account of ill - health , in 1854. He ran as Vice - President with John Bell on the Conservative ticket in 1860. But ...
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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.