Retrospections of an Active Life: 1867-1871Baker & Taylor, 1913 - France |
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... asked the concierge if the Abbé was in . He answered in the affirmative and took me into an immense printing room , a hundred and fifty by sixty feet , the floor of which was covered with printing cases and the walls with stereotype ...
... asked the concierge if the Abbé was in . He answered in the affirmative and took me into an immense printing room , a hundred and fifty by sixty feet , the floor of which was covered with printing cases and the walls with stereotype ...
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... asked my guests , who as far as I remember were all French gentlemen of letters , if they had ever heard , or if they had any reason to suspect , that the original manuscript of Franklin's autobiography was in France . All answered in ...
... asked my guests , who as far as I remember were all French gentlemen of letters , if they had ever heard , or if they had any reason to suspect , that the original manuscript of Franklin's autobiography was in France . All answered in ...
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... asking if I thought Franklin had been serious in his appli- cation for the hand of Madame Helvetius . He did not seem entirely free from doubt on that subject , and whether it was not policy rather than a more tender emotion that ...
... asking if I thought Franklin had been serious in his appli- cation for the hand of Madame Helvetius . He did not seem entirely free from doubt on that subject , and whether it was not policy rather than a more tender emotion that ...
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... asked the servant , Is Mr. Bigelow in his chay [ chez lui ] ? But thy servant answered to thy servant , nay . 7. Again I spake and said , Heh ! Eh ? cried thy servant . Nay not Eh but Hay , prayed thy servant . 8 Then thy servant also ...
... asked the servant , Is Mr. Bigelow in his chay [ chez lui ] ? But thy servant answered to thy servant , nay . 7. Again I spake and said , Heh ! Eh ? cried thy servant . Nay not Eh but Hay , prayed thy servant . 8 Then thy servant also ...
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... asked if he would charge himself with the packing , he being much in the way of sending large framed and glazed engrav- ings out of the city ; and he said he would . Threely , to the S. E. R. way and package Xpress office to ask at what ...
... asked if he would charge himself with the packing , he being much in the way of sending large framed and glazed engrav- ings out of the city ; and he said he would . Threely , to the S. E. R. way and package Xpress office to ask at what ...
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Page 174 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Page 454 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 78 - I do not recognize you as capable of judging, or even fully apprehending me. You evidently regard me as a weak sentimentalist, misled by a maudlin philosophy. I arraign you as narrow-minded blockheads, who would like to be useful to a great and good cause, but don't know how.
Page 91 - In the mean time, that hard-to-begoverned passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way, which were attended with some expense and great inconvenience, besides a continual risque to my health by a distemper which of all things I dreaded, though by great good luck I escaped it.
Page 124 - Stanton, being at the time commander-in-chief of the Northern troops that were concentrated about here, arrived rather late, indeed, they were waiting for him, and, on his entering the room, the President broke off in something he was saying, and remarked : " Let us proceed to business, gentlemen.
Page 91 - Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Page 78 - HORACE GREELEY, a member of the Club, who has become a bondsman for Jefferson Davis, late chief officer of the Rebel government." Mr. Jay continues : " As I have reason to believe that the signers, or some of them, disapprove of the conduct which they propose the Club shall consider, it is clearly due...
Page 45 - The seceded states to be restored to their place in the union, whenever a convention of delegates, "elected by the male citizens, ... of whatever race, color, or previous condition," except those disfranchised for participation in rebellion, etc., should frame a constitution, which, being ratified by the people and approved by congress, should go into operation, and the legislature thereupon elected should adopt the fourteenth amendment.
Page 124 - I don't know — I don't know. But it will happen, and shortly, too.' As they were all impressed by his manner, the Attorney - General took him up again. ' Have you received any information, Sir, not yet disclosed to us?' 'No,' answered the President,