Reminiscences of Distinguished MenPublished for the author., 1878 - 295 páginas |
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... hope , and life . In stature he was tall and spare , his features Roman , his eyes a dark hazel , his manner unobtrusive , his countenance wore an habitual sadness , and his voice was all music . While his appearance attracted the atten ...
... hope , and life . In stature he was tall and spare , his features Roman , his eyes a dark hazel , his manner unobtrusive , his countenance wore an habitual sadness , and his voice was all music . While his appearance attracted the atten ...
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... hope to excite an equal interest ? In the first instance there is a death to hope ; and despair with wings of sable hue oversweeps the grave . In the second instance , hope sustains us in the parting hour , and busy fancy travels ...
... hope to excite an equal interest ? In the first instance there is a death to hope ; and despair with wings of sable hue oversweeps the grave . In the second instance , hope sustains us in the parting hour , and busy fancy travels ...
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... hope , no promise ; when the generous shall cease to sym- pathize and the malignant to persecute , then will this con- sciousness sustain me in the midst of ruin — a living monu- ment of the superiority of intellectual energy over all ...
... hope , no promise ; when the generous shall cease to sym- pathize and the malignant to persecute , then will this con- sciousness sustain me in the midst of ruin — a living monu- ment of the superiority of intellectual energy over all ...
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... hope . Through an uncle residing in Kentucky , a warm per- sonal and political friend of General Jackson , I received an invitation to visit him , at the Hermitage , which 1 ac- cepted in 1827. My Uncle had published a pamphlet entitled ...
... hope . Through an uncle residing in Kentucky , a warm per- sonal and political friend of General Jackson , I received an invitation to visit him , at the Hermitage , which 1 ac- cepted in 1827. My Uncle had published a pamphlet entitled ...
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... Hope in the future . In contemplating Church's Heart of the Andes , we seem to stand upon the margin of a miniature lake , placid as an infant's sleep , in which are reflected the grandeur of the mountain heights with their snow ...
... Hope in the future . In contemplating Church's Heart of the Andes , we seem to stand upon the margin of a miniature lake , placid as an infant's sleep , in which are reflected the grandeur of the mountain heights with their snow ...
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Reminiscences of Distinguished Men: With an Autobiography (Classic Reprint) William B. Slaughter Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 282 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 283 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 88 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Página 263 - Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Página 256 - Sir, the eloquence of Mr. Calhoun, or the manner of his exhibition of his sentiments in public bodies, was part of his intellectual character. It grew out of the qualities of his mind. It was plain, strong, terse, condensed, concise ; sometimes impassioned, — still always severe. Rejecting ornament, not often seeking far for illustration, his power consisted in the plainness of his propositions, in the closeness of his logic, and in the earnestness and energy of his manner.
Página 87 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.
Página 121 - Advert, sir, to the duties of a judge. He has to pass between the government and the man whom that government is prosecuting; between the most powerful individual in the community and the poorest and most unpopular. It is of the last importance that, in the exercise of these duties, he should observe the utmost fairness. Need I press the necessity of this ? Does not every man feel that his own personal security and the security of his property...
Página 137 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter...
Página 290 - We wish that whosoever, in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished, where the first great battle of the revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude ami importance of that event, to every class and every age.
Página 257 - He has lived long enough, he has done enough, and he has done it so well, so successfully, so honorably, as to connect himself for all time with the records of his country.