Retrospections of an Active Life: 1867-1871Baker & Taylor, 1913 - France |
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... wishes for your happiness in this world and in the other ( I speak of the New World ) . Your very devoted ED . LABOULAYE . The next mail took from me a letter to my valued friend in Paris : BIGELOW TO HUNTINGTON Confidential [ About 15 ...
... wishes for your happiness in this world and in the other ( I speak of the New World ) . Your very devoted ED . LABOULAYE . The next mail took from me a letter to my valued friend in Paris : BIGELOW TO HUNTINGTON Confidential [ About 15 ...
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... wish your opinion of the condition , quality & value of the articles named in the en- closed note , i . e .: The form , number of pages , and epoch at which terminates the Autobiography . The number of letters , the number if any ...
... wish your opinion of the condition , quality & value of the articles named in the en- closed note , i . e .: The form , number of pages , and epoch at which terminates the Autobiography . The number of letters , the number if any ...
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... wish you to procure from de Senarmont a history of the several articles , how & when they came into the ancestor's possession , & their subsequent fortunes . I need not explain to you more fully what I want in that way nor why . He will ...
... wish you to procure from de Senarmont a history of the several articles , how & when they came into the ancestor's possession , & their subsequent fortunes . I need not explain to you more fully what I want in that way nor why . He will ...
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... wish very much to have it ( the Franklinic- nacs ) here if possible , on Sunday , if not earlier . As soon as the package is dispatched I would be greatly obliged to you if you would telegraph me , that I may know when to expect it ...
... wish very much to have it ( the Franklinic- nacs ) here if possible , on Sunday , if not earlier . As soon as the package is dispatched I would be greatly obliged to you if you would telegraph me , that I may know when to expect it ...
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... wish . If you can tell me who will be President when I get home , as- suming that our voyage shall be of reasonable duration , you will oblige me by doing so . At present it looks as if the respective incumbents of the White House and ...
... wish . If you can tell me who will be President when I get home , as- suming that our voyage shall be of reasonable duration , you will oblige me by doing so . At present it looks as if the respective incumbents of the White House and ...
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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,