Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherHartford Publishing Company, 1868 - 575 páginas This book contains biographies of leading statesmen, generals, and orators during the Civil War. |
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... characters , so far as possible , dwelt upon the early family and community influences by which they were formed , particularly upon the character and influence of mothers ; but such inquiries relate for the most part to those long dead ...
... characters , so far as possible , dwelt upon the early family and community influences by which they were formed , particularly upon the character and influence of mothers ; but such inquiries relate for the most part to those long dead ...
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... character of the people which a Christian Democracy breeds . Of this people we propose to give a specimen ; to show how they were formed in early life , from the influences which are inherent in such a state . We are proud and happy to ...
... character of the people which a Christian Democracy breeds . Of this people we propose to give a specimen ; to show how they were formed in early life , from the influences which are inherent in such a state . We are proud and happy to ...
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... Character of his Speaking- Full of Facts and Practical Sense - His Usefulness as Chairman of the Military Committee - His " History of the Anti - Slavery Measures in Con- gress " -The 37th and 38th Congresses - The Summary of Anti ...
... Character of his Speaking- Full of Facts and Practical Sense - His Usefulness as Chairman of the Military Committee - His " History of the Anti - Slavery Measures in Con- gress " -The 37th and 38th Congresses - The Summary of Anti ...
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... Character . - CHAPTER VIII . - DAVID G. FARRAGUT . - The Lesson of the Rebellion to Monarchs - The Strength of the United States -The U. S. Naval Service - The Last War - State of the Navy in 1861- Admiral Farragut Represents the Old ...
... Character . - CHAPTER VIII . - DAVID G. FARRAGUT . - The Lesson of the Rebellion to Monarchs - The Strength of the United States -The U. S. Naval Service - The Last War - State of the Navy in 1861- Admiral Farragut Represents the Old ...
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... Character- Hon . Thomas Ewing adopts Sherman - Character of the Boy - He Enters West Point - His Peculiar Traits Showing thus Early - How he Treated his " Pleb " -His Early Military Service - His Appearance as First Lieu- tenant ...
... Character- Hon . Thomas Ewing adopts Sherman - Character of the Boy - He Enters West Point - His Peculiar Traits Showing thus Early - How he Treated his " Pleb " -His Early Military Service - His Appearance as First Lieu- tenant ...
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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 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 335 - ... 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 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Página 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Página 79 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Página 55 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and...
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 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.