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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... MEETING ORATOR . 229 XVIII . CLEVELAND AS I KNEW HIM XIX . THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE FOR SPEAKER XX . A LAWYER OF THE OLD SCHOOL XXI . HIGH DEBATE IN THE MOUNTAINS XXII . THE SAGE OF THE BAR XXIII . " THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI " XXIV ...
... MEETING ORATOR . 229 XVIII . CLEVELAND AS I KNEW HIM XIX . THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE FOR SPEAKER XX . A LAWYER OF THE OLD SCHOOL XXI . HIGH DEBATE IN THE MOUNTAINS XXII . THE SAGE OF THE BAR XXIII . " THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI " XXIV ...
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... MEETING STILL IN SESSION XLVII . THE HAYNE - WEBSTER DEBATE RECALLED XLVIII . IN THE HIGHLANDS ANECDOTES OF LAWYERS L. OUR NOBLE CALLING . LI . THE " HOME - COMING " AT BLOOMINGTON 352 355 • 368 371 • · 376 • 378 • • 381 • 383 386 · 397 ...
... MEETING STILL IN SESSION XLVII . THE HAYNE - WEBSTER DEBATE RECALLED XLVIII . IN THE HIGHLANDS ANECDOTES OF LAWYERS L. OUR NOBLE CALLING . LI . THE " HOME - COMING " AT BLOOMINGTON 352 355 • 368 371 • · 376 • 378 • • 381 • 383 386 · 397 ...
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... meeting at the old Courthouse in advocacy of the election of General Winfield Scott to the Presidency . The speech was one of great ability , and but little that was favorable of the military record of General Pierce remained when the ...
... meeting at the old Courthouse in advocacy of the election of General Winfield Scott to the Presidency . The speech was one of great ability , and but little that was favorable of the military record of General Pierce remained when the ...
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... meeting at the State capital , and address the Democracy of Vermont . When the scarcity of Democrats in the Green Mountain State is taken into account , the significance of Mr. Cox's reply will readily appear . His telegram was to the ...
... meeting at the State capital , and address the Democracy of Vermont . When the scarcity of Democrats in the Green Mountain State is taken into account , the significance of Mr. Cox's reply will readily appear . His telegram was to the ...
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... meeting the expenses of the late war and the interest upon the public debt was by requisition upon the States , with no shadow of power for its enforcement . Under the conditions briefly mentioned , with the United States of America a ...
... meeting the expenses of the late war and the interest upon the public debt was by requisition upon the States , with no shadow of power for its enforcement . Under the conditions briefly mentioned , with the United States of America a ...
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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.