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Among these were many Southerners , and some who had voted against me only
a few hours before . As I count over their names , I find that not a few have since
been entered on the books of death . Schwartz , Burlingame , Pennington , Eliot ...
Among these were many Southerners , and some who had voted against me only
a few hours before . As I count over their names , I find that not a few have since
been entered on the books of death . Schwartz , Burlingame , Pennington , Eliot ...
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lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of
her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and
that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty - eight hours
...
lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of
her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and
that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty - eight hours
...
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Perhaps the most thoughtful member of the Philadelphia bar was the late George
M. Wharton , an “ Old - line Whig , " and yet his last hours were filled with
sympathy with the Democratic party . It is difficult , and often disreputable , to
divine the ...
Perhaps the most thoughtful member of the Philadelphia bar was the late George
M. Wharton , an “ Old - line Whig , " and yet his last hours were filled with
sympathy with the Democratic party . It is difficult , and often disreputable , to
divine the ...
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In this hour of danger — this eventful hour of the age - this hour which is all in all
to us and to millions besides , those oppressed millions of other lands who are
ruled by irresponsible power , and who , as they lie upon the earth , overwhelmed
...
In this hour of danger — this eventful hour of the age - this hour which is all in all
to us and to millions besides , those oppressed millions of other lands who are
ruled by irresponsible power , and who , as they lie upon the earth , overwhelmed
...
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Business holds them only a few hours in its vicinity ; the afternoon and night find
them in their distant homes , or in the more convenient clubs and hotels that have
risen like so many palaces along and near the magnificent avenues stretching ...
Business holds them only a few hours in its vicinity ; the afternoon and night find
them in their distant homes , or in the more convenient clubs and hotels that have
risen like so many palaces along and near the magnificent avenues stretching ...
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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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