A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss, Volume 2C. Scribner's sons, 1855 |
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... present afforded me . That portion of the message to which I shall principally turn my attention , to wit , the defalcations of the public officers , has been already ably considered by my honorable friend from Virginia ( Mr. Wise ) ...
... present afforded me . That portion of the message to which I shall principally turn my attention , to wit , the defalcations of the public officers , has been already ably considered by my honorable friend from Virginia ( Mr. Wise ) ...
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... present Administration , like parricide among the ancients , had hereto- fore been a crime unknown , and consequently unprovided for by justice . Hearken to the philosophical musings of the Presi- dent on this point : " The Government ...
... present Administration , like parricide among the ancients , had hereto- fore been a crime unknown , and consequently unprovided for by justice . Hearken to the philosophical musings of the Presi- dent on this point : " The Government ...
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... present party in power . Their morality is the Spartan morality not the theft , but the discovery , constitutes the crime . Sir , if every office - holder's mantle were thrown aside , how many , think you , would be found without a ...
... present party in power . Their morality is the Spartan morality not the theft , but the discovery , constitutes the crime . Sir , if every office - holder's mantle were thrown aside , how many , think you , would be found without a ...
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... present residence . Better let it be . With much respect , Hon . Secretary of the Treasury . WILLIAM H " With much respect , " ha ! I doubt it . The honorable Sen- ator could not have had much respect for the honorable Secre- tary , or ...
... present residence . Better let it be . With much respect , Hon . Secretary of the Treasury . WILLIAM H " With much respect , " ha ! I doubt it . The honorable Sen- ator could not have had much respect for the honorable Secre- tary , or ...
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... present in the shape of fourteen letters from the Secretary ; and a rarer speci- men of official correspondence cannot be easily found . The correspondence commences January , 1834. I will quote only the present Secretary's epistles ...
... present in the shape of fourteen letters from the Secretary ; and a rarer speci- men of official correspondence cannot be easily found . The correspondence commences January , 1834. I will quote only the present Secretary's epistles ...
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Page 562 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page 502 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 502 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 579 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel „ While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 170 - Scylla bathing in the sea that parts 660 Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore : Nor uglier follow the Night-hag, when call'd In secret riding through the air she comes, Lur'd with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 480 - On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Page 567 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
Page 240 - The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government.
Page 415 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Page 492 - In states there are often some obscure and almost latent causes, things which appear at first view of little moment, on which a very great part of its prosperity or adversity may most essentially depend. The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing...