Noble Living and Grand Achievement: Giants of the Republic, Embracing the Lives, Deeds, and Personal Traits of Eminent Statesmen, Great Generals, Noted Reformers, Successful Men of Business, Distinguished Literary Men, and Famous WomenJohn C. Winston & Company, 1896 - 708 стор. |
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... month over sixteen years of age , to explore and survey these pathless wilds , a large portion of which was then ranged only by wild beasts and savage men . It may be doubted whether a lad of his age ever before undertook a task so ardu ...
... month over sixteen years of age , to explore and survey these pathless wilds , a large portion of which was then ranged only by wild beasts and savage men . It may be doubted whether a lad of his age ever before undertook a task so ardu ...
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... months in Barbadoes with a sick brother . The next year , being then twenty - one years of age , he was sent as commissioner by Governor Dinwiddie to demand of the French commander why he had invaded the king's colonies . For seven ...
... months in Barbadoes with a sick brother . The next year , being then twenty - one years of age , he was sent as commissioner by Governor Dinwiddie to demand of the French commander why he had invaded the king's colonies . For seven ...
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... months of toil and surmounting difficulties more than can be enumerated , Washington was prepared for decisive action . In a dark and stormy night he opened upon the foe in the city , from his encir- cling lines , as fierce a ...
... months of toil and surmounting difficulties more than can be enumerated , Washington was prepared for decisive action . In a dark and stormy night he opened upon the foe in the city , from his encir- cling lines , as fierce a ...
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... months within musket - shot of a powerful British army . During this time he had disbanded the small force of raw militia . he at first had with him , and had recruited another army ; and had then driven the enemy into his ships , and ...
... months within musket - shot of a powerful British army . During this time he had disbanded the small force of raw militia . he at first had with him , and had recruited another army ; and had then driven the enemy into his ships , and ...
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... month , and forbidden to print the paper . He then secretly freed Benjamin from his indentures , in order that the paper might be published in his name . At length , a disagreement arising , Benjamin took advantage of the canceling of ...
... month , and forbidden to print the paper . He then secretly freed Benjamin from his indentures , in order that the paper might be published in his name . At length , a disagreement arising , Benjamin took advantage of the canceling of ...
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Сторінка 236 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Сторінка 39 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Сторінка 608 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Сторінка 61 - In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.
Сторінка 105 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Сторінка 82 - ... between people, who, though separated by an ocean,- and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood. I beg your majesty's permission to add, that .although I have sometimes before been intrusted by my country, it was never in my whole life in a manner so agreeable to myself.
Сторінка 172 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Сторінка 53 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Сторінка 53 - I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. I believed, from my first attack, that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
Сторінка 689 - Now, Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is.