A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and OrationsHudson-Kimberly publishing Company, 1902 - 536 pages |
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... will probably continue to be the most faithful transcript of one of the most important and interest- ing epochs in modern American history . The impartial and vivid observer and chronicler of im- pressions 72 JOHN JAMES INGALLS .
... will probably continue to be the most faithful transcript of one of the most important and interest- ing epochs in modern American history . The impartial and vivid observer and chronicler of im- pressions 72 JOHN JAMES INGALLS .
Page 79
... continue the unequal con- test , in the summer of 1855 they wrote their father to procure and to bring to Kansas arms , to enable them to protect their lives and property . He arrived , after a tedious journey , through Illinois and ...
... continue the unequal con- test , in the summer of 1855 they wrote their father to procure and to bring to Kansas arms , to enable them to protect their lives and property . He arrived , after a tedious journey , through Illinois and ...
Page 88
... continues the veracious chronicler , nor anywhere else safely , so he dis- guised himself by cutting off his beard and fled to New Eng- land , where he won the confidence of some of her greatest and noblest men ; after which he hovered ...
... continues the veracious chronicler , nor anywhere else safely , so he dis- guised himself by cutting off his beard and fled to New Eng- land , where he won the confidence of some of her greatest and noblest men ; after which he hovered ...
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... continue to live till education , religion , and development shall render him and his congeners as impossi- ble as the monsters that tore each other in the period of the Jurassic group . The foes of Darwin are accustomed to assail the ...
... continue to live till education , religion , and development shall render him and his congeners as impossi- ble as the monsters that tore each other in the period of the Jurassic group . The foes of Darwin are accustomed to assail the ...
Page 138
... continue on his own account the commerce which his partners have abandoned in that quarter , hopes that you will be ... continues his voyages of discoveries conformably to the desires of the Government , which are the cause of great ...
... continue on his own account the commerce which his partners have abandoned in that quarter , hopes that you will be ... continues his voyages of discoveries conformably to the desires of the Government , which are the cause of great ...
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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!