Life and Military Career of Winfield Scott HancockHubbard bros., 1880 - 502 pages |
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... once more to put an American into the Presidency who will honestly lead the American people away from quarrels into comradeship and confidence . Such a man is the soldier Hancock . Believe me , I have no other aspiration in writing his ...
... once more to put an American into the Presidency who will honestly lead the American people away from quarrels into comradeship and confidence . Such a man is the soldier Hancock . Believe me , I have no other aspiration in writing his ...
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... once . The distribution of public trusts among the people , not the wretched plan of removing subordi- nates at the command of every machine despot , is after all the highest conservatism . West Point and the Naval School are the real ...
... once . The distribution of public trusts among the people , not the wretched plan of removing subordi- nates at the command of every machine despot , is after all the highest conservatism . West Point and the Naval School are the real ...
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... once assumed the cham- pionship of weaker and younger boys . The lads of the village organized a volunteer " soldier com- pany , " and Winfield was unanimously elected captain , when he was only twelve years old , and to this date it is ...
... once assumed the cham- pionship of weaker and younger boys . The lads of the village organized a volunteer " soldier com- pany , " and Winfield was unanimously elected captain , when he was only twelve years old , and to this date it is ...
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... once resolved to see if he could not checkmate him . Joseph Fornance was the sitting member . The other veteran politician lost no time in letting him know the horse story , and the scheme to obtain his recommendation of the other boy ...
... once resolved to see if he could not checkmate him . Joseph Fornance was the sitting member . The other veteran politician lost no time in letting him know the horse story , and the scheme to obtain his recommendation of the other boy ...
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... once al- most to his death . Yet this history and this ser- perverted , not only to show that he has lost his citizenship by his self - sacrifice , but by so doing he has proved that he has no interest in his vice are native state . To ...
... once al- most to his death . Yet this history and this ser- perverted , not only to show that he has lost his citizenship by his self - sacrifice , but by so doing he has proved that he has no interest in his vice are native state . To ...
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Page 497 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 386 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 154 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 303 - Ye know, that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you ; but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister ; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant, even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 123 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.
Page 209 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE, IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER.
Page 355 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 355 - 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.
Page 167 - All time, he might have added, is the millennium of their glory. Surely I would do no injustice to the other noble achievements of the war, which have reflected such honor on both arms of the service, and have entitled the armies and the navy of the United States, their officers and men, to the warmest thanks and the richest rewards which a grateful people can pay. But they, I am sure, will join...
Page 369 - Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections; let me indulge in refreshing remembrance of the past; let me remind you that in early times no states cherished greater harmony, both of principle and feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return. Shoulder to shoulder they went through the revolution; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support.