Anecdotes of Public Men, Band 2Harper & Brothers, 1881 - 444 Seiten |
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... Massachusetts , on the 11th of April , 1794 , and died at Boston on the 16th of Janu- ary , 1865 , literally in harness , just after he had returned from the delivery of an oration at Savannah for the relief of EDWARD EVERETT . 15.
... Massachusetts , on the 11th of April , 1794 , and died at Boston on the 16th of Janu- ary , 1865 , literally in harness , just after he had returned from the delivery of an oration at Savannah for the relief of EDWARD EVERETT . 15.
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... returned to Paris from London , and declared his desire to rank himself under the flag of the Republic ; and , in the meanwhile , his cousins , Pierre and Prince Jerome Bonaparte ( Plonplon ) , were elected members of the National ...
... returned to Paris from London , and declared his desire to rank himself under the flag of the Republic ; and , in the meanwhile , his cousins , Pierre and Prince Jerome Bonaparte ( Plonplon ) , were elected members of the National ...
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... returned to the East over- land in June , 1847. In June , 1849 , he resigned his commission . in the navy , and , in 1851 , was elected a Senator in Congress from New Jersey for the term ending in 1857 , but resigned in 1853 , after ...
... returned to the East over- land in June , 1847. In June , 1849 , he resigned his commission . in the navy , and , in 1851 , was elected a Senator in Congress from New Jersey for the term ending in 1857 , but resigned in 1853 , after ...
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... returned to Texas and was chosen Governor by the people . He was thrown into the very vortex of the Rebellion , and was sorely tested . He never forgot his love for the Union , nor his love for Texas ; but the fire - eaters were too ...
... returned to Texas and was chosen Governor by the people . He was thrown into the very vortex of the Rebellion , and was sorely tested . He never forgot his love for the Union , nor his love for Texas ; but the fire - eaters were too ...
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... returned to the government of the common . wealth through welcome hands . Borne one by one out of this capital , during more than four years of civil war , as the sym- bols of the nation and the commonwealth under which the battalions ...
... returned to the government of the common . wealth through welcome hands . Borne one by one out of this capital , during more than four years of civil war , as the sym- bols of the nation and the commonwealth under which the battalions ...
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Seite 128 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Seite 21 - 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.
Seite 162 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Seite 135 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Seite 175 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Seite 317 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Seite 381 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Seite 213 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 350 - ... to vary the name; for I feared lest it should be looked on as a vanity in me, and not as a respect in the King, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentions with praise.