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His treasures of memory were inexhaustible . He never failed for an illustration .
He liked the short farce better than the five - act tragedy . He would shout
PRESIDENT LINCOLN . 39 with laughter over a French , 38 ANECDOTES OF
PUBLIC ...
His treasures of memory were inexhaustible . He never failed for an illustration .
He liked the short farce better than the five - act tragedy . He would shout
PRESIDENT LINCOLN . 39 with laughter over a French , 38 ANECDOTES OF
PUBLIC ...
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Another illustration of the force of circumstances is that of John Cabell
Breckinridge , of Kentucky . I have always believed that he espoused the
Confederacy , if not reluctantly , at least in the conviction that it would forever end
his political ...
Another illustration of the force of circumstances is that of John Cabell
Breckinridge , of Kentucky . I have always believed that he espoused the
Confederacy , if not reluctantly , at least in the conviction that it would forever end
his political ...
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... not more eloquent or dignified than the Senator from Kentucky , yet with the
Roman purple flowing over his shoulders , had risen in his place , surrounded by
all the illustrations of Roman glory , and declared that advancing Hannibal was
just ...
... not more eloquent or dignified than the Senator from Kentucky , yet with the
Roman purple flowing over his shoulders , had risen in his place , surrounded by
all the illustrations of Roman glory , and declared that advancing Hannibal was
just ...
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The manner in which he preserved and kept from public view the fact of his
nomination as Secretary of State under President Polk , twenty - nine years ago ,
is a good illustration . He was regarded as the probable successor of Daniel
Webster ...
The manner in which he preserved and kept from public view the fact of his
nomination as Secretary of State under President Polk , twenty - nine years ago ,
is a good illustration . He was regarded as the probable successor of Daniel
Webster ...
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His experience is another illustration of the elasticity of our institutions ; another
proof that when the offspring of the wealthy , spoiled and enervated by over -
indulgence , fail to grapple with grave duties and responsibilities , we can always
find ...
His experience is another illustration of the elasticity of our institutions ; another
proof that when the offspring of the wealthy , spoiled and enervated by over -
indulgence , fail to grapple with grave duties and responsibilities , we can always
find ...
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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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