Autobiography of Seventy Years, Том 1C. Scribner's sons, 1903 |
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... Whig , and in the last years of his life a Republican . He Mr. Hoar succeeded Edward Everett as Representative in Congress from the Middlesex District in 1835 . served there but a single term . He made one speech , a Con- stitutional ...
... Whig , and in the last years of his life a Republican . He Mr. Hoar succeeded Edward Everett as Representative in Congress from the Middlesex District in 1835 . served there but a single term . He made one speech , a Con- stitutional ...
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... Whigs in politics and Unitarians , a sect containing a very small proportion of the people of the State . The project to take the College from their control was very popular . The House listened willingly to the able arguments with ...
... Whigs in politics and Unitarians , a sect containing a very small proportion of the people of the State . The project to take the College from their control was very popular . The House listened willingly to the able arguments with ...
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... Whigs or Democrats united in the movement . A secret organization called Americans , or Know - Nothings , swept the Commonwealth like a wave , electing all the State officers , and , with scarcely an exception , the entire Legislature ...
... Whigs or Democrats united in the movement . A secret organization called Americans , or Know - Nothings , swept the Commonwealth like a wave , electing all the State officers , and , with scarcely an exception , the entire Legislature ...
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... liking . When I was a little boy he was in a newspaper office in Concord , where he got most of his education . Afterward he was associated with William Schouler in editing the Lowell Courier , a Whig paper 78 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY ...
... liking . When I was a little boy he was in a newspaper office in Concord , where he got most of his education . Afterward he was associated with William Schouler in editing the Lowell Courier , a Whig paper 78 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY ...
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... Whig paper which circulated in the country towns where Robinson's paper was chiefly taken . He made poor Piper's life unhappy . One of the issues of his paper contained a life of Piper . It begun by saying that Piper began life as the ...
... Whig paper which circulated in the country towns where Robinson's paper was chiefly taken . He made poor Piper's life unhappy . One of the issues of his paper contained a life of Piper . It begun by saying that Piper began life as the ...
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Сторінка 143 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Сторінка 64 - twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold : Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.
Сторінка 155 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Сторінка 307 - My own public life has been a very brief and insignificant one, extending little beyond the duration of a single term of Senatorial office; but in that brief period I have seen five judges of a high court of the United States driven from office by threats of impeachment for corruption or maladministration. I have heard...
Сторінка 13 - Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Сторінка 13 - Congress by the confederation ; and, moreover, to legislate in all cases in which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Сторінка 71 - In damp fields known to bird and fox, But he would come in the very hour It opened in its virgin bower, As if a sunbeam showed the place, And tell its long-descended race.
Сторінка 394 - And when asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He hails from Appomattox, And its famous apple tree.
Сторінка 341 - I would, therefore, defer to him as much as is consistent with your own responsibilities. The first object to be attained is to get a firm position on the spit of land on which Fort Fisher is built, from which you can operate against that fort. You want to look to the practicability of receiving your supplies, and to defending yourself against superior forces sent against you by any of the avenues left open to the enemy. If such a position can be obtained, the siege of Fort Fisher will not be abandoned...
Сторінка 340 - Butler from the command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina. I do this with reluctance, but the good of the service requires it. In my absence General Butler necessarily commands, and there is a lack of confidence felt in his military ability, making him an unsafe commander for a large army. His administration of the affairs of his department is also objectionable.