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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... writing in self - defense , was yet suffering from the sense of galling injustice on the part of the Confederate executive , and is constitutionally inclined to stand in the shadow of his own greatness . Gen. Badeau's fertile pen was ...
... writing in self - defense , was yet suffering from the sense of galling injustice on the part of the Confederate executive , and is constitutionally inclined to stand in the shadow of his own greatness . Gen. Badeau's fertile pen was ...
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... the conduct and attributes of the man of whom they write , so far as their knowledge of the circumstances under which he acted might extend . One of the most distinguished patriots of that era said THE RENAISSANCE OF NATIONALISM . 9.
... the conduct and attributes of the man of whom they write , so far as their knowledge of the circumstances under which he acted might extend . One of the most distinguished patriots of that era said THE RENAISSANCE OF NATIONALISM . 9.
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One of the most distinguished patriots of that era said to the writer , soon after Mr. Lincoln's death : " It is a great misfortune ; for it will now be a quarter of a century , at least , before the world will learn just what sort of a ...
One of the most distinguished patriots of that era said to the writer , soon after Mr. Lincoln's death : " It is a great misfortune ; for it will now be a quarter of a century , at least , before the world will learn just what sort of a ...
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... writer , a most pure and blameless as well as a most royally endowed child of Christian civilization , testifies : " If we consider merely the subtlety of disquisition , the force of imagination , the perfect energy and elegance of ...
... writer , a most pure and blameless as well as a most royally endowed child of Christian civilization , testifies : " If we consider merely the subtlety of disquisition , the force of imagination , the perfect energy and elegance of ...
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... writer , in a sort of logical panic , terms it " an attack on $ 700,000,000 of capital . " Here we reach the real foundation on which this extreme and yet typi- cal example of the policy of combination between railways rests . " Capital ...
... writer , in a sort of logical panic , terms it " an attack on $ 700,000,000 of capital . " Here we reach the real foundation on which this extreme and yet typi- cal example of the policy of combination between railways rests . " Capital ...
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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...