Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1873 - 444 páginas |
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... Chief Magistrate , recommending Mr. Buchanan for Secre- tary of State . George M. Dallas , of Pennsylvania , was chosen Vice - President on the same ticket with Mr. Polk . He , like Buchanan , was a standing candidate for the first ...
... Chief Magistrate , recommending Mr. Buchanan for Secre- tary of State . George M. Dallas , of Pennsylvania , was chosen Vice - President on the same ticket with Mr. Polk . He , like Buchanan , was a standing candidate for the first ...
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... chief actor himself , who would finally drop his instrument out of sheer exhaustion . So true it is that work without amusement is a sure prepara- tion for death ; that the brain , like the body , must have rest , and that when either ...
... chief actor himself , who would finally drop his instrument out of sheer exhaustion . So true it is that work without amusement is a sure prepara- tion for death ; that the brain , like the body , must have rest , and that when either ...
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... chief attraction , by his endless flow of spirits and his pecul- iar magnetic amiability . When I was the Democratic candi- date for United States Senator , in 1857 , before the Legislature of Pennsylvania , of which Mr. Wilkins was a ...
... chief attraction , by his endless flow of spirits and his pecul- iar magnetic amiability . When I was the Democratic candi- date for United States Senator , in 1857 , before the Legislature of Pennsylvania , of which Mr. Wilkins was a ...
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... chief command- er , General R. E. Lee . Waiving further question the witness was discharged , and General Lee called and duly sworn , who testified as to his position in the Confederate service , his direc- tions to Longstreet , and his ...
... chief command- er , General R. E. Lee . Waiving further question the witness was discharged , and General Lee called and duly sworn , who testified as to his position in the Confederate service , his direc- tions to Longstreet , and his ...
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... chief clerk at Seventh and Willow Streets , on the Schuylkill front , under A. Boyd Cummings , collector of tolls at the eastern end of the Public Works . In 1850 he entered the service of the great Pennsylvania Central at Duncanville ...
... chief clerk at Seventh and Willow Streets , on the Schuylkill front , under A. Boyd Cummings , collector of tolls at the eastern end of the Public Works . In 1850 he entered the service of the great Pennsylvania Central at Duncanville ...
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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.