Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1873 - 444 páginas |
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... the gallant Baker of Oregon , whose prediction of the collapse of the rebellion he has lived to realize , and , I hope , not to regret . [ March 12 , 1871. ] X. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from.
... the gallant Baker of Oregon , whose prediction of the collapse of the rebellion he has lived to realize , and , I hope , not to regret . [ March 12 , 1871. ] X. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from.
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... [ March 26 , 1871. ] XII . LISTENING to Mr. Dougherty's brilliant lecture , at the Phila- delphia Academy of Music , on the evening of March 13 , mem- ory carried me back many years . He was right when he said that the days of oratory ...
... [ March 26 , 1871. ] XII . LISTENING to Mr. Dougherty's brilliant lecture , at the Phila- delphia Academy of Music , on the evening of March 13 , mem- ory carried me back many years . He was right when he said that the days of oratory ...
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... March 25 , 1864 , aged fifty - three . They should have lived longer , but they lived long enough to leave thousands to mourn their loss and to revere their memory . [ March 2 , 1871. ] XIII . JAMES BUCHANAN had , like most men , a few ...
... March 25 , 1864 , aged fifty - three . They should have lived longer , but they lived long enough to leave thousands to mourn their loss and to revere their memory . [ March 2 , 1871. ] XIII . JAMES BUCHANAN had , like most men , a few ...
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... March of 1871 - sometimes in- cluding the two upper parlors , and occasionally taking posses- sion of the whole house , which was very large and commodious ; but this only happened when I called my friends around me , about once every ...
... March of 1871 - sometimes in- cluding the two upper parlors , and occasionally taking posses- sion of the whole house , which was very large and commodious ; but this only happened when I called my friends around me , about once every ...
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... March , 1845 , one of his first visitors was McConnell , and I shall never forget the way he introduced himself : " I have called to pay you my respects , Mr. President , and to say that if you believe in the Virginia and Kentucky ...
... March , 1845 , one of his first visitors was McConnell , and I shall never forget the way he introduced himself : " I have called to pay you my respects , Mr. President , and to say that if you believe in the Virginia and Kentucky ...
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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.