Life Work of Thomas L. NugentCatherine Nugent C. Nugent, 1896 - 398 pages Biography of Thomas Lewis Nugent includes correspondence, speeches, extracts of contemporary newspaper articles, and eulogies. |
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Page 134
... free coinage of silver , declared that " there is no curse in existence like the contraction of the currency , " and showed that because of the demonetization of silver , the farm- ers of the United States , on four leading crops , lost ...
... free coinage of silver , declared that " there is no curse in existence like the contraction of the currency , " and showed that because of the demonetization of silver , the farm- ers of the United States , on four leading crops , lost ...
Page 142
... free silver , but the evidence is overwhelming to the contrary . The New York Times approves this plan and says of it : " It shows that public sentiment is being enlightened and that the demand for free coinage of silver has been , on ...
... free silver , but the evidence is overwhelming to the contrary . The New York Times approves this plan and says of it : " It shows that public sentiment is being enlightened and that the demand for free coinage of silver has been , on ...
Page 143
... free silver despoliation . Our own Senator Coke , in a great speech delivered in the United States senate , April 26 ... coinage , urged its abandonment , denounced the $ 346,000,000 of legal tender notes as a debt of the government ...
... free silver despoliation . Our own Senator Coke , in a great speech delivered in the United States senate , April 26 ... coinage , urged its abandonment , denounced the $ 346,000,000 of legal tender notes as a debt of the government ...
Page 144
... free silver coinage will be an impossibility if he should ever become president . " Cleveland has been nomina- ted , the " syndicate of bankers and bondholders " has " proved stronger than the people , " and the senator still advises us ...
... free silver coinage will be an impossibility if he should ever become president . " Cleveland has been nomina- ted , the " syndicate of bankers and bondholders " has " proved stronger than the people , " and the senator still advises us ...
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... Free coinage of silver . 3d , Increase of the circulating medium to $ 50 per capita ; and 4th , Government ownership of railroads . In advocating the free coinage of silver , we put ourselves in line with the traditions and teachings of ...
... Free coinage of silver . 3d , Increase of the circulating medium to $ 50 per capita ; and 4th , Government ownership of railroads . In advocating the free coinage of silver , we put ourselves in line with the traditions and teachings of ...
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Page 31 - HE stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide The din of battle and of slaughter rose; He saw God stand upon the weaker side, That sank in seeming loss before its foes: Many there were who made great haste and sold Unto the cunning enemy their swords, He scorned their gifts of fame, and power, and gold, And, underneath their soft and flowery words, Heard the cold serpent hiss ; therefore he went And humbly joined him to the weaker part, Fanatic named, and fool, yet well content So he could be the...
Page 232 - We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage...
Page 394 - Weeping at the feet and head. I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this: "/ am not the thing you kiss; Cease your tears, and let it lie; It was mine — it is not I.
Page 104 - The heavens declare the glory of God: And the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge.
Page 395 - Weep awhile, if ye are fain, — Sunshine still must follow rain; Only not at death, — for death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life centre.
Page 395 - Tis an empty sea-shell — one Out of which the pearl is gone ; The Shell is broken, it lies there ; The Pearl, the All, the Soul is here. 'Tis an earthen jar, whose lid Allah sealed, the while it hid That treasure of his treasury, A mind that loved Him : let it lie! Let the shard be earth's once more, Since the gold shines in His store ! Allah glorious ! Allah good ! Now thy world is understood ; Now the long, long wonder ends.
Page 394 - Sweet friends! what the women lave For its last bed in the grave Is a tent which I am quitting, Is a garment no more fitting, Is a cage from which at last Like a hawk my soul hath passed. Love the inmate, not the room; The wearer, not the garb; the plume Of the falcon, not the bars Which kept him from the splendid stars.
Page 151 - Congress has no power to charter a national bank ; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of this country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people...
Page 83 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth : for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Page 395 - In enlarging Paradise, Lives a life that never dies. Farewell, friends ! Yet not farewell ; Where I am, ye too shall dwell. I am gone before your face, A moment's time, a little space. When ye come where I have stepped Ye will wonder why ye wept ; Ye will know, by wise love taught, That here is all, and there is naught.