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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... nature . It will always be both interesting and useful to know both the quality of the family stock , and the circum- stances of the early training of men who have acted any remarkable part in life . Our country has recently passed ...
... nature . It will always be both interesting and useful to know both the quality of the family stock , and the circum- stances of the early training of men who have acted any remarkable part in life . Our country has recently passed ...
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... nature in agri- cultural life . Frugality , strict temperance , self - reliance and indomi- table industry have been the lessons of their early days . Some facts about these specimen citizens are worthy of attention . More than one ...
... nature in agri- cultural life . Frugality , strict temperance , self - reliance and indomi- table industry have been the lessons of their early days . Some facts about these specimen citizens are worthy of attention . More than one ...
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... Natural Executive Tendency - His Business Career - His Extreme Punctu- ality in Payments - His Business and ... Nature - His Course During and Since the War - A Change of Tone Recommended . - CHAPTER XVIII . - HENRY WARD BEECHER ...
... Natural Executive Tendency - His Business Career - His Extreme Punctu- ality in Payments - His Business and ... Nature - His Course During and Since the War - A Change of Tone Recommended . - CHAPTER XVIII . - HENRY WARD BEECHER ...
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... nature in listening , apprehending and stating . Mr. Lincoln was now about twenty - three . His life thus far may perhaps be considered as his education ; at any rate , it is the part of his life which answers to the school years ...
... nature in listening , apprehending and stating . Mr. Lincoln was now about twenty - three . His life thus far may perhaps be considered as his education ; at any rate , it is the part of his life which answers to the school years ...
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... nature , his kindness , and his unfailing flow of stories , making him a most welcome guest on every circuit . He never took technical advantages , but on the other hand often showed an adversary some error in matter of form , and ...
... nature , his kindness , and his unfailing flow of stories , making him a most welcome guest on every circuit . He never took technical advantages , but on the other hand often showed an adversary some error in matter of form , and ...
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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.