Our Presidents: Brief Biographies of Our Chief MagistratesMacmillan, 1924 - 325 pages |
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... became his teachers . We never can truly understand this man if we start with the mistaken idea that he was the product of wealth and aristocracy . His people really were only a plain , though always a highly respectable family , living ...
... became his teachers . We never can truly understand this man if we start with the mistaken idea that he was the product of wealth and aristocracy . His people really were only a plain , though always a highly respectable family , living ...
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... became by the death of his brother the owner of Mt. Vernon and free at last to give rein to his restless spirit for adventure in sports and politics , in love and war . A foreign visitor once doubted the story that Wash- ington threw a ...
... became by the death of his brother the owner of Mt. Vernon and free at last to give rein to his restless spirit for adventure in sports and politics , in love and war . A foreign visitor once doubted the story that Wash- ington threw a ...
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... became President it was madden- ing to his ego that he should be expected to play sec- ond fiddle to Alexander Hamilton , the master spirit of the old governing class , left over from colonial times , and which controlled the Federalist ...
... became President it was madden- ing to his ego that he should be expected to play sec- ond fiddle to Alexander Hamilton , the master spirit of the old governing class , left over from colonial times , and which controlled the Federalist ...
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Brief Biographies of Our Chief Magistrates James Morgan. acts , which became only millstones about their necks , sinking their party forever . Not satisfied with shut- ting the Revolution out of the New World , many of them were for ...
Brief Biographies of Our Chief Magistrates James Morgan. acts , which became only millstones about their necks , sinking their party forever . Not satisfied with shut- ting the Revolution out of the New World , many of them were for ...
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... became the responsible head of the family of eight children . It was not a large estate ; for the Jeffersons , like the Washingtons , belonged more to the yeomanry than to the aristocracy who lorded it over tide - water Virginia . But ...
... became the responsible head of the family of eight children . It was not a large estate ; for the Jeffersons , like the Washingtons , belonged more to the yeomanry than to the aristocracy who lorded it over tide - water Virginia . But ...
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Page 149 - I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. " It is in order that each one of you may have, through this free Government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise, and intelligence ; that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human...
Page 291 - some fifteen men, bleary-eyed with loss of sleep, and perspiring profusely with the excessive heat, will sit down in seclusion round a big table. I will be with them, and will present the [name] of Senator Harding to them and before we get through, they will put him over.
Page 140 - 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...
Page 149 - President tonight had a dream. He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: 'He is a very common-looking man.' The President replied: 'The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
Page 140 - If I had to draw a pen across my record, and erase my whole life from sight, and I had one poor gift or choice left as to what I should save from the wreck, I should choose that speech and leave it to the world unerased.
Page 169 - Mr. Senator Anthony, how say you? Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, guilty or not guilty of a high misdemeanor, as charged in this article?
Page 176 - The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Page 148 - I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsake me; and I would publicly appeal to the country for this new force were it not that I fear a general panic and stampede would follow, so hard it is to have a thing understood as it really is.
Page 131 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page viii - My Lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio. I can touch a bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New -York ; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do as much ? " Then follows a list of over a hundred of the victims of the bastile ; from Colonel Lambdin P.