The North American Review, Volume 144O. Everett, 1887 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... question its accuracy or rebut its conclusions . Not so , however , the subordinates on whom he weakly and ungenerously sought to cast the stigma of failure . Each one of these made haste to repel the insinuation of default . With the ...
... question its accuracy or rebut its conclusions . Not so , however , the subordinates on whom he weakly and ungenerously sought to cast the stigma of failure . Each one of these made haste to repel the insinuation of default . With the ...
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... question of right and wrong that affected the two opposing ideas to permit that to be long neglected . Inspired by an unparalleled benignity , the American people have hitherto consented to keep in the background the chief question ...
... question of right and wrong that affected the two opposing ideas to permit that to be long neglected . Inspired by an unparalleled benignity , the American people have hitherto consented to keep in the background the chief question ...
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... question during the first months of his power . Following this comes the volume of " Reminiscences of Abra- ham Lincoln , " written by prominent men , who were not only his contemporaries but more or less closely associated with him at ...
... question during the first months of his power . Following this comes the volume of " Reminiscences of Abra- ham Lincoln , " written by prominent men , who were not only his contemporaries but more or less closely associated with him at ...
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... question the intellectual pre - eminence of Mr. Lincoln or the absolute devo- tion of Grant to the cause of the Republic . It has come to the masses of our people almost as a revelation that this backwoods lawyer was not only a man of ...
... question the intellectual pre - eminence of Mr. Lincoln or the absolute devo- tion of Grant to the cause of the Republic . It has come to the masses of our people almost as a revelation that this backwoods lawyer was not only a man of ...
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... question will be raised whether Congress has not the power to authorize the organization of National banks without requiring them to deposit any United States bonds whatever , and in view of a recent decision of the Supreme Court ...
... question will be raised whether Congress has not the power to authorize the organization of National banks without requiring them to deposit any United States bonds whatever , and in view of a recent decision of the Supreme Court ...
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Page 355 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 439 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 604 - Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Page 107 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 333 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, and the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Page 367 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 107 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 107 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it; and now beware of rashness.
Page 446 - first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Page 39 - But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better, by those pursuits in which she has taught mankind to engage ? — to how many the studies which took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude...