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John Wien Forney. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VER ! TAS FROM THE
BEQUEST OF CHARLES SUMNER CLASS OF 1830 Senator from
Massachusetts FOR BOOKS RELATING TO POLITICS AND FINB ARTS - Z allt
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John Wien Forney. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VER ! TAS FROM THE
BEQUEST OF CHARLES SUMNER CLASS OF 1830 Senator from
Massachusetts FOR BOOKS RELATING TO POLITICS AND FINB ARTS - Z allt
segand 1. Хи ang !
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Take his campaign against the Nullifiers of the South in 1850 , when he ran as an
independent candidate for governor of Georgia , and was elected over Charles J.
McDonald , the leader of the Calhounites . At the close of his first eight years in ...
Take his campaign against the Nullifiers of the South in 1850 , when he ran as an
independent candidate for governor of Georgia , and was elected over Charles J.
McDonald , the leader of the Calhounites . At the close of his first eight years in ...
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John Quincy , his son , was in some respects a larger and a riper mind ; Charles
Francis , his living grandson , is a more cautious and conservative personage ,
while his great - grandsons are spoken of as men of learning and culture .
John Quincy , his son , was in some respects a larger and a riper mind ; Charles
Francis , his living grandson , is a more cautious and conservative personage ,
while his great - grandsons are spoken of as men of learning and culture .
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... Brodhead , Charles J. Ingersoll , Joseph R. Ingersoll , Lewis C. Levin , and
David Wilmot , of Pennsylvania , the first and last afterward in the Senate , and
the whole number now in their graves ; Thomas H. Bayley and George C.
Dromgoole ...
... Brodhead , Charles J. Ingersoll , Joseph R. Ingersoll , Lewis C. Levin , and
David Wilmot , of Pennsylvania , the first and last afterward in the Senate , and
the whole number now in their graves ; Thomas H. Bayley and George C.
Dromgoole ...
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A great and wise man said to me lately , after reading one of Charles Reade's
wonderful creations , “ This book reminds me keenly of the singular adage , that
many a romance is history without the proper names , just as many a history is ...
A great and wise man said to me lately , after reading one of Charles Reade's
wonderful creations , “ This book reminds me keenly of the singular adage , that
many a romance is history without the proper names , just as many a history is ...
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Página 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Página 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Página 12 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Página 445 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHBOP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 169 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
Página 245 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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| Título | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney |
| Autor | John Wien Forney |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Harper & Brothers, 1873 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 10 Dic. 2007 |
| Largo | 444 páginas |
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