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Ex - Mayor John Swift , who is still living in Philadelphia , in the 84th year of his
age , dropped in at my editorial rooms the morning after Mr. Clay's arrival , in
company with my esteemed friend , Edwin Forrest , the tragedian . Mr. Swift , who
had ...
Ex - Mayor John Swift , who is still living in Philadelphia , in the 84th year of his
age , dropped in at my editorial rooms the morning after Mr. Clay's arrival , in
company with my esteemed friend , Edwin Forrest , the tragedian . Mr. Swift , who
had ...
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I had seen him but once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well -
known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly
esteemed for his amiability and learning , visited my office in his company ; but
when I met ...
I had seen him but once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well -
known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly
esteemed for his amiability and learning , visited my office in his company ; but
when I met ...
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He did not think a man any worse for having worked for his living at a trade , nor
did he believe him any better . And this theory sprang from the belief that the
laboring men of America are seldom true to the bright minds so often reared
among ...
He did not think a man any worse for having worked for his living at a trade , nor
did he believe him any better . And this theory sprang from the belief that the
laboring men of America are seldom true to the bright minds so often reared
among ...
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... David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The
Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the
16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed of the redemption of California .
... David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The
Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the
16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed of the redemption of California .
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His respected widow , living in Philadelphia , has some of his MSS . in her
possession , and will , I hope , soon present a memoir of her gifted husband .
Conrad was more fortunate . He printed much that he spoke and wrote . He was
the editor ...
His respected widow , living in Philadelphia , has some of his MSS . in her
possession , and will , I hope , soon present a memoir of her gifted husband .
Conrad was more fortunate . He printed much that he spoke and wrote . He was
the editor ...
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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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