Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 páginas |
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Página vii
... received their early train- ing in New England , and full one - third are direct lineal descendants of the Pilgrim fathers . All , so far as we know , are undoubted be- lievers in the Christian religion - the greater proportion of them ...
... received their early train- ing in New England , and full one - third are direct lineal descendants of the Pilgrim fathers . All , so far as we know , are undoubted be- lievers in the Christian religion - the greater proportion of them ...
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... receiving it , " that would not be right . I can't take pay for doing my duty . " He was quite as prompt and just in accepting un- profitable duty as in declining its profitable opposite . During all the early part of his legal practice ...
... receiving it , " that would not be right . I can't take pay for doing my duty . " He was quite as prompt and just in accepting un- profitable duty as in declining its profitable opposite . During all the early part of his legal practice ...
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... received a joint fee his inva- riable custom was to divide it properly , and tie up in a separate parcel each associate's part of the very money received , duly labelled and directed . In 1841 Mr. Lincoln argued before the Supreme Court ...
... received a joint fee his inva- riable custom was to divide it properly , and tie up in a separate parcel each associate's part of the very money received , duly labelled and directed . In 1841 Mr. Lincoln argued before the Supreme Court ...
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... received what he thought a large fee , and he made a good use of it . The sum was five hundred dollars , and a friend who called to see him the next morning , found him counting it over and over , and piling it up on the table to look ...
... received what he thought a large fee , and he made a good use of it . The sum was five hundred dollars , and a friend who called to see him the next morning , found him counting it over and over , and piling it up on the table to look ...
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... received all but seven out of 284 votes ; and he was never beaten again in any election by the people . His actual political career , not counting this defeat , began in 1834 , when he was chosen member of the State Legislature , and ...
... received all but seven out of 284 votes ; and he was never beaten again in any election by the people . His actual political career , not counting this defeat , began in 1834 , when he was chosen member of the State Legislature , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
38th Congress abolitionists Abraham Lincoln anti-slavery army battle BATTLE OF SHILOH became blood Boston called campaign cause character Charles Sumner Chase Christian church citizens Colfax colored command constitution course debates defend Douglas Douglass duty election emancipation father feeling fight force Fort Duncan Frederick Douglass friends fugitive slave fugitive slave law Garrison Governor Grant Greeley hand heart Henry Wilson honor human Illinois Increase Sumner justice labor lawyer liberty Lincoln living Massachusetts master ment military mind moral mother nation negro never Ohio once paper party political poor President principle rebel rebellion Schuyler Colfax Senate sentiment Sheridan Sherman side slaveholders slavery society solemn South southern speech Stanton Sumner things thought tion took Union Union army United Vicksburg VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN victory vigorous vote Washington Whig Whig party whole words young
Pasajes populares
Página 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 329 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Página 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Página 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Página 41 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
Página 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Página 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Página 107 - You lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain: Reckless, so it could point its paragraph,...