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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... human habitation , without chart or surveyor's chain ? After this , while serving as a postmaster , he began his law studies . He took the postmastership for the THE BOOKS HE READ . 15 sake of reading all 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... human habitation , without chart or surveyor's chain ? After this , while serving as a postmaster , he began his law studies . He took the postmastership for the THE BOOKS HE READ . 15 sake of reading all 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... took place , showing him as cu- riously scrupulous about small sums as he was trusty and trusted about large ones . When he left New Sa- lem and went to Springfield , he was still so poor that he even found it difficult to procure the ...
... took place , showing him as cu- riously scrupulous about small sums as he was trusty and trusted about large ones . When he left New Sa- lem and went to Springfield , he was still so poor that he even found it difficult to procure the ...
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... took her papers , and was about to depart . " Wait a moment , " said Mr. Lincoln , " here is the check you gave But , " said she , " Mr. Lincoln , I think you have earned that . " " No , no , " he answered , insisting on her receiving ...
... took her papers , and was about to depart . " Wait a moment , " said Mr. Lincoln , " here is the check you gave But , " said she , " Mr. Lincoln , I think you have earned that . " " No , no , " he answered , insisting on her receiving ...
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... took hold of the heart of the evidence for the state- that of the chief witness . He pointed out first one discrepancy , and then another , and then another . He came at last to that part of the evidence where this principal witness had ...
... took hold of the heart of the evidence for the state- that of the chief witness . He pointed out first one discrepancy , and then another , and then another . He came at last to that part of the evidence where this principal witness had ...
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... took but one large fee , and that his friends insisted on his taking . This was $ 5,000 from the Illinois Central Railroad Company , one of the richest corporations in the country , and for very valuable services in a very important ...
... took but one large fee , and that his friends insisted on his taking . This was $ 5,000 from the Illinois Central Railroad Company , one of the richest corporations in the country , and for very valuable services in a very important ...
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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.