Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1873 - 444 páginas |
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... heard of outside their own vicinage . Many a mediocrity becomes a celebrity when his name figures in the Congressional yeas and nays , just as many a nobler intellect remains rooted to the spot of its birth , full of knowledge of a ...
... heard of outside their own vicinage . Many a mediocrity becomes a celebrity when his name figures in the Congressional yeas and nays , just as many a nobler intellect remains rooted to the spot of its birth , full of knowledge of a ...
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... heard surpassed in either House of Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so rapid , his retorts so quick ...
... heard surpassed in either House of Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so rapid , his retorts so quick ...
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... heard you make a very fiery speech on a very cold night in Washington , in the early winter of 1860. It was from the window or balcony of a house on Missouri Avenue . " I looked at him with surprise , when he laughingly said : " I lived ...
... heard you make a very fiery speech on a very cold night in Washington , in the early winter of 1860. It was from the window or balcony of a house on Missouri Avenue . " I looked at him with surprise , when he laughingly said : " I lived ...
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... heard of a Democrat buying a negro and then giving her her liberty ! " He affected much indignation when President Lincoln con- signed Roger A. Pryor to me as a sort of prisoner - guest in 1865 , and regularly every morning would greet ...
... heard of a Democrat buying a negro and then giving her her liberty ! " He affected much indignation when President Lincoln con- signed Roger A. Pryor to me as a sort of prisoner - guest in 1865 , and regularly every morning would greet ...
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... heard the re- markable first message of the man who succeeded him , just as Andrew Johnson heard the still more remarkable inauguration of the man he succeeded . War followed the one , peace and assassination the other . The scene in ...
... heard the re- markable first message of the man who succeeded him , just as Andrew Johnson heard the still more remarkable inauguration of the man he succeeded . War followed the one , peace and assassination the other . The scene in ...
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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.