Abraham Lincoln, and Other Addresses in EnglandCentury Company, 1910 - 293 pages |
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... United States , it was my good fortune to be brought into close contact with the British people , which gave me a unique oppor- tunity to study their habits and characteristics , and their social and political institutions . My one ...
... United States , it was my good fortune to be brought into close contact with the British people , which gave me a unique oppor- tunity to study their habits and characteristics , and their social and political institutions . My one ...
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... United States and its place in the Constitution . Even learned lawyers and jurists found it difficult to understand how two distinct and independent governments could coexist over the same people and the same territory without clashing ...
... United States and its place in the Constitution . Even learned lawyers and jurists found it difficult to understand how two distinct and independent governments could coexist over the same people and the same territory without clashing ...
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... UNITED STATES Address delivered before the Political and Social Education League , May 13th , 1903 . 157 EDUCATION IN AMERICA 199 · Inaugural address , August 1st , 1903 , at the opening of the summer meeting at Oxford . SIR WALTER ...
... UNITED STATES Address delivered before the Political and Social Education League , May 13th , 1903 . 157 EDUCATION IN AMERICA 199 · Inaugural address , August 1st , 1903 , at the opening of the summer meeting at Oxford . SIR WALTER ...
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... United States , and a Life of Wash- ington fell into his hands . He trudged on foot many miles through the wilderness to borrow an English Grammar , and is said to have devoured greedily the contents of the Statutes of Indiana that fell ...
... United States , and a Life of Wash- ington fell into his hands . He trudged on foot many miles through the wilderness to borrow an English Grammar , and is said to have devoured greedily the contents of the Statutes of Indiana that fell ...
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... United States were already surely and swiftly passing from the older Eastern States . It was this reputation and this impression and the familiar knowledge of his character which had come to them from his local leadership , that hap ...
... United States were already surely and swiftly passing from the older Eastern States . It was this reputation and this impression and the familiar knowledge of his character which had come to them from his local leadership , that hap ...
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Page 17 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 191 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 51 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 31 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 90 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 32 - I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Page 142 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Page 288 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 242 - I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 77 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.