Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and RetrospectiveA.C. McClurg & Company, 1909 - 442 pages |
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... CLAY AS A PARTY LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS - LINCOLN'S ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT - THE WRITER'S ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . T - HE period extending from my first election to Congress in 1874 , to my retirement from the ...
... CLAY AS A PARTY LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS - LINCOLN'S ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT - THE WRITER'S ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . T - HE period extending from my first election to Congress in 1874 , to my retirement from the ...
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... Clay and Webster , Winthrop and Crittenden , school soon disappeared from the arena . Men hitherto compara- tively unknown to the country at large were soon to the front . Conspicuous among them was a country lawyer whose home was at ...
... Clay and Webster , Winthrop and Crittenden , school soon disappeared from the arena . Men hitherto compara- tively unknown to the country at large were soon to the front . Conspicuous among them was a country lawyer whose home was at ...
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... Clay and Andrew Jack- son . The former was the early political idol of Mr. Lincoln ; the latter , of Mr. Douglas . Possibly , since the foundation of the Government , no statesman has been so completely idolized by his friends and party ...
... Clay and Andrew Jack- son . The former was the early political idol of Mr. Lincoln ; the latter , of Mr. Douglas . Possibly , since the foundation of the Government , no statesman has been so completely idolized by his friends and party ...
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... Clay how to vote ? " The Speaker answered that such was the purport of the reso- lution . At which the member from the mountains , throw- ing up his arms , exclaimed " Great God ! " and sank into his seat . It is needless to add that ...
... Clay how to vote ? " The Speaker answered that such was the purport of the reso- lution . At which the member from the mountains , throw- ing up his arms , exclaimed " Great God ! " and sank into his seat . It is needless to add that ...
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... Clay , the House of Representatives has probably never known his equal as a party leader . That he possessed a touch of humor will appear from the following . While the discussion was at its height upon his amendment excluding Jefferson ...
... Clay , the House of Representatives has probably never known his equal as a party leader . That he possessed a touch of humor will appear from the following . While the discussion was at its height upon his amendment excluding Jefferson ...
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Page 124 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him: The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Page 251 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 126 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better...
Page 320 - Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Page 118 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 118 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 305 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Page 306 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 377 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 86 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.