Reminiscences of Distinguished MenPublished for the author., 1878 - 295 páginas |
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... less had a decided effect . The General's gratitude to my Uncle was manifested by repeated acts of kindness to me . Through his influence direct , and indirect , I was retained in public office seven years . Whatever the General's vices ...
... less had a decided effect . The General's gratitude to my Uncle was manifested by repeated acts of kindness to me . Through his influence direct , and indirect , I was retained in public office seven years . Whatever the General's vices ...
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... less driven for safety or comfort to aggregate themselves , they never develope any nearer approach to civilization , than is found at the present day among the pastoral tribes of the steppes of Siberia or among the hunter races of our ...
... less driven for safety or comfort to aggregate themselves , they never develope any nearer approach to civilization , than is found at the present day among the pastoral tribes of the steppes of Siberia or among the hunter races of our ...
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... less fashionable now than formerly , for British tourists to dep- recate American morals and manners . Al- though the sons of America have not sung in Homeric verse , nor carved the chiseled beauties of Phidias , nor caught the delicate ...
... less fashionable now than formerly , for British tourists to dep- recate American morals and manners . Al- though the sons of America have not sung in Homeric verse , nor carved the chiseled beauties of Phidias , nor caught the delicate ...
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... less than that voice which said Lazarus come forth , can reach their deafened ears . Oblivion shrouds their senses , while their immortal spirits visit their homes and their " dear native bowers , where pleasures awaited on life's merry ...
... less than that voice which said Lazarus come forth , can reach their deafened ears . Oblivion shrouds their senses , while their immortal spirits visit their homes and their " dear native bowers , where pleasures awaited on life's merry ...
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... less , and mindless , you would deem him but a few degrees removed from the Ourang - outang . When listening to him in the Grecian Atheneum , explaining the laws of science and numbering the stars , you would deem him a philosopher ...
... less , and mindless , you would deem him but a few degrees removed from the Ourang - outang . When listening to him in the Grecian Atheneum , explaining the laws of science and numbering the stars , you would deem him a philosopher ...
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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.