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 volume contains brief biographical sketches of several leading politicians, clergymen, reformers and thinkers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's day, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass. |
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... living , in 1830 , or thereabouts , " lying on a trundle - bed , with one leg stretched out rocking the cra- dle containing the child of his hostess , while he himself was absorbed in the study of English grammar . " The world has many ...
... living , in 1830 , or thereabouts , " lying on a trundle - bed , with one leg stretched out rocking the cra- dle containing the child of his hostess , while he himself was absorbed in the study of English grammar . " The world has many ...
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... living man nor a dead man - such as a policy of " don't care " on a question about which all true men do care -such as Union appeals , beseeching true Union men to yield to disunionists , reversing the Divine rule , and calling , not ...
... living man nor a dead man - such as a policy of " don't care " on a question about which all true men do care -such as Union appeals , beseeching true Union men to yield to disunionists , reversing the Divine rule , and calling , not ...
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... living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land , will yet swell the chorus of the Union , when again touched , as surely they will be , by the better angels of our nature . " As the war went on , the same unwavering decision ...
... living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land , will yet swell the chorus of the Union , when again touched , as surely they will be , by the better angels of our nature . " As the war went on , the same unwavering decision ...
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... living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope , fervently do we pray , that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away . Yet , if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty ...
... living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope , fervently do we pray , that this mighty scourge of war may soon pass away . Yet , if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty ...
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... living and dead , who struggled here , have consecra- ted it far above our poor 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 . It is for us , the ...
... living and dead , who struggled here , have consecra- ted it far above our poor 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 . It is for us , the ...
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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.