A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and OrationsHudson-Kimberly publishing Company, 1902 - 536 pages |
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Page 48
... representative man . He stood for Kansas , for the whole State , because he was a scholarly thinker and an orator . He may not have represented specifically and distinctly the man who likes social fellowship , nor the mild- tempered ...
... representative man . He stood for Kansas , for the whole State , because he was a scholarly thinker and an orator . He may not have represented specifically and distinctly the man who likes social fellowship , nor the mild- tempered ...
Page 49
... representative ? Kansas is a peculiar commonwealth , and even when her fifes and drums are still and her swords are in their scabbards , the gates of the temple of Janus stand open , and a warfare of factions , a bloodless contention ...
... representative ? Kansas is a peculiar commonwealth , and even when her fifes and drums are still and her swords are in their scabbards , the gates of the temple of Janus stand open , and a warfare of factions , a bloodless contention ...
Page 109
... representatives in literature and art . Boston and New York are not more unlike than Chicago and St. Louis , and Denver and San Francisco resemble Paris as much as any of their American sister cities . They are all illustra- tions of ...
... representatives in literature and art . Boston and New York are not more unlike than Chicago and St. Louis , and Denver and San Francisco resemble Paris as much as any of their American sister cities . They are all illustra- tions of ...
Page 142
... representative of Regis Loisel , to be located upon any vacant lands of the United States . In 1859 the lands were entered in the counties of Nemaha , Marshall , Jack- son , and Pottawatomie , Kansas , and remained vacant ten years ...
... representative of Regis Loisel , to be located upon any vacant lands of the United States . In 1859 the lands were entered in the counties of Nemaha , Marshall , Jack- son , and Pottawatomie , Kansas , and remained vacant ten years ...
Page 248
... representative , conspicuous types of this era , like , pyramids above the desert , or mountain peaks over the subordinate plains , are Abraham Lincoln , U. S. Grant , and old John Brown of Osawatomie , and I am not sure that the last ...
... representative , conspicuous types of this era , like , pyramids above the desert , or mountain peaks over the subordinate plains , are Abraham Lincoln , U. S. Grant , and old John Brown of Osawatomie , and I am not sure that the last ...
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Page 310 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 262 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 97 - 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 476 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 214 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 484 - To the west, to the west, to the land of the free Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea; Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil.
Page 25 - Then from the dawn it seem'd there came, but faint As from beyond the limit of the world, Like the last echo born of a great cry, Sounds, as if some fair city were one voice Around a king returning from his wars.
Page 219 - Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for
Page 496 - The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The decalogue and the golden rule have no place in a political campaign.
Page 230 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!