Retrospections of an Active Life: 1867-1871Baker & Taylor, 1913 - France |
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... least pleasant feature of these excursions was our lunch at twelve o'clock , for which Huntington was sure to be able to name on nearly every occasion a different restaurant rendered classical to us by some illustrious person who had ...
... least pleasant feature of these excursions was our lunch at twelve o'clock , for which Huntington was sure to be able to name on nearly every occasion a different restaurant rendered classical to us by some illustrious person who had ...
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... least not specially political - friendly letters and not , he thinks , ever communicated to Mr. Sparks or other bookmaking person . The portrait is by Duplessis and according to " a tradition in the family " the original , not the ...
... least not specially political - friendly letters and not , he thinks , ever communicated to Mr. Sparks or other bookmaking person . The portrait is by Duplessis and according to " a tradition in the family " the original , not the ...
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... least postponed that folly . I accepted that as a hint from Provi- dence and determined to leave you to act upon your previous instructions for another day . Presuming that you have acted and that your report is now on the Channel ...
... least postponed that folly . I accepted that as a hint from Provi- dence and determined to leave you to act upon your previous instructions for another day . Presuming that you have acted and that your report is now on the Channel ...
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... least that office in 14 hours . I took it home and opened it , and as luck would have it Forster had invited my wife & me a second time to dine with him that very evg . I took with me the autograph [ autobiography ] . The picture I ...
... least that office in 14 hours . I took it home and opened it , and as luck would have it Forster had invited my wife & me a second time to dine with him that very evg . I took with me the autograph [ autobiography ] . The picture I ...
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... least none has fallen under my eye , of Burke's writings upon that subject . It was he who said that " nothing could make a happy slave but a degraded man " ; and that it was " impossible to civilize a slave . " He was also one of the ...
... least none has fallen under my eye , of Burke's writings upon that subject . It was he who said that " nothing could make a happy slave but a degraded man " ; and that it was " impossible to civilize a slave . " He was also one of the ...
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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,