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That opened the ball , and , nothing loth , he answered with a story I can never
forget ; a story which I believe has never been forgotten by any one who heard it :
“ When I lived in Pittsburgh , gentlemen , " said the Doctor , “ where I had the ...
That opened the ball , and , nothing loth , he answered with a story I can never
forget ; a story which I believe has never been forgotten by any one who heard it :
“ When I lived in Pittsburgh , gentlemen , " said the Doctor , “ where I had the ...
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Mr. Stevens rarely told a story . He was strong in repartee , in retort , in quiet
interrogatory . He must have been terrible at the cross - examination of a witness .
There is nothing finer , as I think , in the annals of humor than his quaint
questions to ...
Mr. Stevens rarely told a story . He was strong in repartee , in retort , in quiet
interrogatory . He must have been terrible at the cross - examination of a witness .
There is nothing finer , as I think , in the annals of humor than his quaint
questions to ...
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He delighted in parables and stories . 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 ...
He delighted in parables and stories . 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 ...
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But to my story . I sat in the gallery of the old House , now the glorious receptacle
which I hope decent courage in our public men will secure from the profanation of
being a sepulchre for every dead - beat in the way of art , where Stephen A.
But to my story . I sat in the gallery of the old House , now the glorious receptacle
which I hope decent courage in our public men will secure from the profanation of
being a sepulchre for every dead - beat in the way of art , where Stephen A.
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... its story and its triumphs , our Republic has become confederate alike with the
liberty sentiment of the world and with the majestic power of human sympathy to
propagate itself , and hence its flag is destined to wave not only over an empire ...
... its story and its triumphs , our Republic has become confederate alike with the
liberty sentiment of the world and with the majestic power of human sympathy to
propagate itself , and hence its flag is destined to wave not only over an empire ...
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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.
Información bibliográfica
| 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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