Distinguished American Lawyers: With Their Struggles and Triumphs in the Forum ...C.L. Webster, 1891 - 716 pages |
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... the com- mencement of Civil war Secretary of State at end of Buchanan's admin- Reporter of Supreme Court Resigns Returns to the Prominence as a writer Death . istration practice - - - JAMES TOPHAM BRADY ......... . - -- .... 65.
... the com- mencement of Civil war Secretary of State at end of Buchanan's admin- Reporter of Supreme Court Resigns Returns to the Prominence as a writer Death . istration practice - - - JAMES TOPHAM BRADY ......... . - -- .... 65.
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... Civil War Horatio Seymour to a joint discussion Hall , Boston - - .321 Becomes a lawyer Oratory an inherent faculty His first case Mr. Dougherty as a lecturer First po itical speech Readiness in the forum Position at breaking Always an ...
... Civil War Horatio Seymour to a joint discussion Hall , Boston - - .321 Becomes a lawyer Oratory an inherent faculty His first case Mr. Dougherty as a lecturer First po itical speech Readiness in the forum Position at breaking Always an ...
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... Civil War . They would have prevented it if they could , but had it not occurred their lives would probably have been spent in the inglorious inactivity of camps and garrisons on the frontier , or the obscurity of humble private ...
... Civil War . They would have prevented it if they could , but had it not occurred their lives would probably have been spent in the inglorious inactivity of camps and garrisons on the frontier , or the obscurity of humble private ...
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... Civil War , the most important period of our history , as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry sustain to the American Revolution , or Gladstone to the cause of Home Rule in Ireland . The only conspicuous utter- ance that rises spontaneously ...
... Civil War , the most important period of our history , as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry sustain to the American Revolution , or Gladstone to the cause of Home Rule in Ireland . The only conspicuous utter- ance that rises spontaneously ...
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... civil and religious liberty . In periods of danger and tumult , when established institutions are threatened by false instructions or by appeals to violence , the thoughtful and conservative masses of the people have always turned to ...
... civil and religious liberty . In periods of danger and tumult , when established institutions are threatened by false instructions or by appeals to violence , the thoughtful and conservative masses of the people have always turned to ...
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Page 481 - Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word ; but in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Page 28 - ... no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.
Page 42 - A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery.
Page 278 - That every person holding any civil office to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and every person who shall hereafter be appointed to any such office, and shall become duly qualified to act therein, is, and shall be, entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified, except as herein otherwise provided...
Page 566 - O'er such sweet brows as never other wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare...
Page 700 - It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, which was raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early, that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Page 702 - Buckminster sought, especially, to persuade me to perform the exercise of declamation, like other boys ; but I could not do it. Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse, in my own room, over and over again ; yet when the day came, when the school collected to hear declamations, when my name was called, and I saw all eyes turned, to my seat, I could not raise myself from it.
Page 478 - We do not know whether the grave is the end of this life, or the door of another, or whether the night here is not somewhere else a dawn. Neither can we tell which is the more fortunate— the child dying in its mother's arms, before its lips have learned to form a word, or he who journeys all the length of life's uneven road, painfully taking the last slow steps with staff and crutch. Every cradle asks us "Whence?
Page 481 - He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy ; and were...
Page 278 - Provided, That the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster-General, and the Attorney-General, shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.