Men and Events of Forty Years: Autobiographical Reminiscences of an Active Career from 1850 to 1890D. Lothrop Company, 1891 - 426 sider |
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... hand in , if I should return to at least an honest occupation . " There was a parish meeting . A home for the minister was the living question , and grandfather hinted to the large landholders on the Street that this was the time to ...
... hand in , if I should return to at least an honest occupation . " There was a parish meeting . A home for the minister was the living question , and grandfather hinted to the large landholders on the Street that this was the time to ...
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... hands of four or five millions of our people . A conscience the small boy had , and as good as new - with a good reason , for he had not used it . An early , slight peculation is not forgotten . " Will a con- science beggar him who ...
... hands of four or five millions of our people . A conscience the small boy had , and as good as new - with a good reason , for he had not used it . An early , slight peculation is not forgotten . " Will a con- science beggar him who ...
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... hands , and was an adept in sheep - shearing- tiresome , merry occasions . Cattle were brought in autumn from long distances , and with a vein of independence I drove alone a small herd , more than twenty miles , reaching home only by ...
... hands , and was an adept in sheep - shearing- tiresome , merry occasions . Cattle were brought in autumn from long distances , and with a vein of independence I drove alone a small herd , more than twenty miles , reaching home only by ...
Side 17
... hand ( no iron safes in the country then ) , an inci- dent talked about , and to feed my youthful vanity still more , while I was beguiled along in ignorance of books . At sixteen years of age , in vain I plead for a portion of my ...
... hand ( no iron safes in the country then ) , an inci- dent talked about , and to feed my youthful vanity still more , while I was beguiled along in ignorance of books . At sixteen years of age , in vain I plead for a portion of my ...
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... hand fire - engine there was diversion in quickening the step , or lowering the hauteur of pretenders ; occasionally giving a sprinkle , if not a forced ablution to a flunk in our impromptu debates , which were both novel and ...
... hand fire - engine there was diversion in quickening the step , or lowering the hauteur of pretenders ; occasionally giving a sprinkle , if not a forced ablution to a flunk in our impromptu debates , which were both novel and ...
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Side 81 - I denounce it in the name of the sovereignty of Massachusetts, which was stricken down by the blow. I denounce it in the name of humanity. I denounce it in the name of civilization which it outraged. I denounce it in the name of that fair play which bullies and prize-fighters respect.
Side 368 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 153 - We are about to ascertain the national will by an amendment to the Constitution. If the gentlemen opposite will yield to the voice of God and humanity, and vote for it, I verily believe the sword of the destroying angel will be stayed, and this people be reunited. If we harden our hearts, and blood must still flow, may the ghosts of the slaughtered victims sit heavily upon the souls of those who cause it.
Side 281 - The Indian right of possession itself stands, with regard to the greatest part of the country, upon a questionable foundation. Their cultivated fields; their constructed habitations; a space of ample sufficiency for their subsistence, and whatever they had annexed to themselves by personal labor, was undoubtedly, by the laws of nature, theirs. But what is the right of a huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey...
Side 156 - Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime ; " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Side 191 - I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but, finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this, that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, Equality of Man before his Creator.
Side 136 - ... face of the enemy, that vast regions are reduced to obedience to the laws, and that a great host in armed array now presses with steady step into the dark regions of the rebellion. It is only by the earnest and abiding resolution of the people, that whatever shall be our fate, it shall be grand as the American nation, worthy of that Republic which first trod the path of Empire, and made no peace but under the banners of victory, that the American people will survive in history.
Side 41 - I love and I love !" In the winter they're silent — the wind is so strong ; What it says, I don't know, but it sings a loud song. But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather, And singing, and loving — all come back together. But the Lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings ; and for ever sings he — " I love my Love, and my Love loves me !'
Side 137 - Yes, sir, if we must fall, let our last hours be stained by no weakness. If we must fall, let us stand amid the crash of the falling Republic and be buried in its ruins, so that history may take note that men lived in the middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but chastised by God for the sins of their forefathers. Let the ruins of the Republic remain to testify to the latest generations our greatness and our heroism. And let Liberty, crownless and childless, sit upon these ruins,...
Side 19 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled, The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.