Reminiscences of Distinguished MenPublished for the author., 1878 - 295 páginas |
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... truths , for that would imply a sepa- rate creation , yet the manifestations of old truths are as various as the ever ... truth , which will constitute its chief merit . I am con- scious of no desire for notoriety , I have outlived the ...
... truths , for that would imply a sepa- rate creation , yet the manifestations of old truths are as various as the ever ... truth , which will constitute its chief merit . I am con- scious of no desire for notoriety , I have outlived the ...
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... truth that guided them ; it was patriotic ardor that warmed them . It was on this occasion that Mr. Calhoun , then Secretary of War , said , “ Let Virginia , like the mother of the Gracchi when called upon for her jewels , point to her ...
... truth that guided them ; it was patriotic ardor that warmed them . It was on this occasion that Mr. Calhoun , then Secretary of War , said , “ Let Virginia , like the mother of the Gracchi when called upon for her jewels , point to her ...
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... truth in the charge . It was gotten up for his annoyance by the meddlesome , the idle , and the mischievous ; by characters whom , as Junius says , " resemble the filth at the bottom of a lake , which , during the storm rises to the ...
... truth in the charge . It was gotten up for his annoyance by the meddlesome , the idle , and the mischievous ; by characters whom , as Junius says , " resemble the filth at the bottom of a lake , which , during the storm rises to the ...
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... truth his government was patriarchal , and his subjects loved him . He said to me every body at home governed him — wife , overseer and servants . He spoke freely of men and things , of his enemies with bit- terness . He gave me the ...
... truth his government was patriarchal , and his subjects loved him . He said to me every body at home governed him — wife , overseer and servants . He spoke freely of men and things , of his enemies with bit- terness . He gave me the ...
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... truth of biog- raphy , for history is an aggregation of biographies . He who understands one man thoroughly , understands all men . The essential elements are the same . There is in them unvarying unity . In their manifestations there ...
... truth of biog- raphy , for history is an aggregation of biographies . He who understands one man thoroughly , understands all men . The essential elements are the same . There is in them unvarying unity . In their manifestations there ...
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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.