Autobiography of Seventy Years, Volume 2C. Scribner's Sons, 1903 Extra-illustrated volumes with tipped-in engraved portraits and autograph letters of 19th-century American political figures. Letters are cataloged individually and can be found by a search of the book's call number. |
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... chief lieuten- ant , Simmons , was appointed Collector of the Port of Bos- ton . Judge Russell , the old Collector , was an able and very popular man . He had given Butler a sort of half- hearted support . But he was incapable of ...
... chief lieuten- ant , Simmons , was appointed Collector of the Port of Bos- ton . Judge Russell , the old Collector , was an able and very popular man . He had given Butler a sort of half- hearted support . But he was incapable of ...
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... chief ambition , however , was for judicial service . He was much disappointed when it was found desirable that he should take the Department of War instead of the Department of Justice to which Presi- dent Hayes originally intended to ...
... chief ambition , however , was for judicial service . He was much disappointed when it was found desirable that he should take the Department of War instead of the Department of Justice to which Presi- dent Hayes originally intended to ...
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... chief . He was again appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1881 , and held that office until his death . He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society October 21 , 1878. He was a member of the Mas ...
... chief . He was again appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1881 , and held that office until his death . He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society October 21 , 1878. He was a member of the Mas ...
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... chief proofs of the kindness of divine Providence to the American people in a time of very great peril that their leaders were so different in character . They are all dead now - Sumner and Fessen- den and Seward and Wilson and Chase ...
... chief proofs of the kindness of divine Providence to the American people in a time of very great peril that their leaders were so different in character . They are all dead now - Sumner and Fessen- den and Seward and Wilson and Chase ...
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... Chief Justice of England . The United States was repre- sented by Caleb Cushing , William M. Evarts and Morrison R. Waite , afterward Chief Justice of the United States , as counsel . Adams rarely betrayed any deep emotion on any public ...
... Chief Justice of England . The United States was repre- sented by Caleb Cushing , William M. Evarts and Morrison R. Waite , afterward Chief Justice of the United States , as counsel . Adams rarely betrayed any deep emotion on any public ...
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Page 360 - ... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets...
Page 260 - O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Page 360 - I have no pleasure in them ; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 121 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 457 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and...
Page 453 - It is time to be old, To take in sail:— The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.
Page 82 - Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 86 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 287 - I charge you before God and his blessed angels that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth 1 A Humble Supplication, p. 26. by my ministry: for I am verily persuaded, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 171 - Provided, That whenever the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States shall devolve upon any of the persons named herein, if Congress be not then in session, or if it would not meet in accordance with law within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom said powers and duties shall devolve to issue a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty daysi notice of the time of meeting.