Anecdotes of Public Men, 第 1 巻Harper & Brothers, 1873 - 444 ページ |
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... took our leave , and as we descended the stairs , For- rest turned to Mr. Swift and myself , and said : " Mr. Clay has proved , by the skill with which he can change his manner , and the grace with which he can make an apology , that he ...
... took our leave , and as we descended the stairs , For- rest turned to Mr. Swift and myself , and said : " Mr. Clay has proved , by the skill with which he can change his manner , and the grace with which he can make an apology , that he ...
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... took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned ...
... took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned ...
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... took the train for Washington to anticipate and watch events . I quartered , as usual , with Mr. Buchanan , and there waited for the summons . None came , however . Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia I was invited to a ...
... took the train for Washington to anticipate and watch events . I quartered , as usual , with Mr. Buchanan , and there waited for the summons . None came , however . Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia I was invited to a ...
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... took the omnibus to the New York dépôt , intending to sail in a few days for San Francisco . The shadow of his fate was upon him . He was much depressed . We had broken the Ad- ministration party to pieces in most of the Northern States ...
... took the omnibus to the New York dépôt , intending to sail in a few days for San Francisco . The shadow of his fate was upon him . He was much depressed . We had broken the Ad- ministration party to pieces in most of the Northern States ...
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... took place on the 13th of the same month , and on the 16th my poor friend died from a wound received at the hands of the pro- slavery Democrat leader , David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The ...
... took place on the 13th of the same month , and on the 16th my poor friend died from a wound received at the hands of the pro- slavery Democrat leader , David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The ...
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170 ページ - 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.
12 ページ - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : 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.
169 ページ - 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.
245 ページ - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
445 ページ - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
170 ページ - 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.
91 ページ - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
170 ページ - We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.