Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other ContemporariesEstes and Lauriat, 1892 - 601 páginas "Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface. |
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... existence of that inconse- quential little hamlet itself . It was laid out two years before Lincoln emigrated to Illinois and three years before he took up his abode there . He lived there five years and a half , and while he did live ...
... existence of that inconse- quential little hamlet itself . It was laid out two years before Lincoln emigrated to Illinois and three years before he took up his abode there . He lived there five years and a half , and while he did live ...
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... existence , Lincoln commenced the world in earnest , and passed nearly all his time there , day or night , for he left Speed's room after a little and slept here on the old lounge , of which it might be said " The lounge contrived a ...
... existence , Lincoln commenced the world in earnest , and passed nearly all his time there , day or night , for he left Speed's room after a little and slept here on the old lounge , of which it might be said " The lounge contrived a ...
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... existence . On another occasion , earlier , a very poor artist induced him to sit and took a daguerreotype which re- sembled ( not Lincoln but - say ) the Wandering Jew : and exposed it in his outer show - case . Afterward , some of us ...
... existence . On another occasion , earlier , a very poor artist induced him to sit and took a daguerreotype which re- sembled ( not Lincoln but - say ) the Wandering Jew : and exposed it in his outer show - case . Afterward , some of us ...
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... Existence on his farm was too prosaic for him , altho ' he was then seventy years old . The Judge had sufficient business to fully engross his at- tention ; he was immensely wealthy ; had a large rent - roll : and a great private ...
... Existence on his farm was too prosaic for him , altho ' he was then seventy years old . The Judge had sufficient business to fully engross his at- tention ; he was immensely wealthy ; had a large rent - roll : and a great private ...
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... existence and the keen perception and masterly treatment of those great movements which engage the attention of the Muse of history , was radical . never seemed to have outgrown his guilelessness and sim- plicity , but in matters of the ...
... existence and the keen perception and masterly treatment of those great movements which engage the attention of the Muse of history , was radical . never seemed to have outgrown his guilelessness and sim- plicity , but in matters of the ...
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Página 281 - Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? 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 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Página 568 - 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 208 - 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 it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
Página 278 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Página 568 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 312 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Página 389 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Página 468 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, • Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Página 350 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Página 464 - I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through Mie town.