Men and Events of Forty Years: Autobiographical Reminiscences of an Active Career from 1850 to 1890D. Lothrop Company, 1891 - 426 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... never stinting expression of his thought and feeling , in any presence whatsoever ; and so frank that sometimes , as in this book , his felicitation over all persons , all things , when it included himself might seem like egotism ...
... never stinting expression of his thought and feeling , in any presence whatsoever ; and so frank that sometimes , as in this book , his felicitation over all persons , all things , when it included himself might seem like egotism ...
Pagina xi
... never despaired . The dark days came , the clouds lowered , human hearts were burdened with almost more than human strength could bear , God and victory seemed to hesitate between the North and the South , the Right and Wrong - but here ...
... never despaired . The dark days came , the clouds lowered , human hearts were burdened with almost more than human strength could bear , God and victory seemed to hesitate between the North and the South , the Right and Wrong - but here ...
Pagina 2
... never been one of the name convicted of an infamous offense , which opinion I have no occasion to discredit , however indifferent many of the name may have been to their blood , and a fortunate history and environment . Grinnelle , in ...
... never been one of the name convicted of an infamous offense , which opinion I have no occasion to discredit , however indifferent many of the name may have been to their blood , and a fortunate history and environment . Grinnelle , in ...
Pagina 11
... never got down to the plane of a vulgar oath . If this seems a boast , I rather call it a proof that a common and profane prac- tice is without excuse . I was driving the cows to pasture , and clandestinely indulging in a barefoot race ...
... never got down to the plane of a vulgar oath . If this seems a boast , I rather call it a proof that a common and profane prac- tice is without excuse . I was driving the cows to pasture , and clandestinely indulging in a barefoot race ...
Pagina 12
... never took an hour for hunting ; and the first , last , and all of my slain by lead were a prowling dog , a vexatious squirrel , and a prairy chicken on the wing . Among Indians , cow- boys and desperadoes in Texas , and elsewhere , I never ...
... never took an hour for hunting ; and the first , last , and all of my slain by lead were a prowling dog , a vexatious squirrel , and a prairy chicken on the wing . Among Indians , cow- boys and desperadoes in Texas , and elsewhere , I never ...
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Pagina 81 - I denounce it in the name of the sovereignty of Massachusetts, which was stricken down by the blow. I denounce it in the name of humanity. I denounce it in the name of civilization which it outraged. I denounce it in the name of that fair play which bullies and prize-fighters respect.
Pagina 368 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 153 - We are about to ascertain the national will by an amendment to the Constitution. If the gentlemen opposite will yield to the voice of God and humanity, and vote for it, I verily believe the sword of the destroying angel will be stayed, and this people be reunited. If we harden our hearts, and blood must still flow, may the ghosts of the slaughtered victims sit heavily upon the souls of those who cause it.
Pagina 281 - The Indian right of possession itself stands, with regard to the greatest part of the country, upon a questionable foundation. Their cultivated fields; their constructed habitations; a space of ample sufficiency for their subsistence, and whatever they had annexed to themselves by personal labor, was undoubtedly, by the laws of nature, theirs. But what is the right of a huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey...
Pagina 156 - Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb." As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime ; " Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed ; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Pagina 191 - I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but, finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this, that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, Equality of Man before his Creator.
Pagina 136 - ... face of the enemy, that vast regions are reduced to obedience to the laws, and that a great host in armed array now presses with steady step into the dark regions of the rebellion. It is only by the earnest and abiding resolution of the people, that whatever shall be our fate, it shall be grand as the American nation, worthy of that Republic which first trod the path of Empire, and made no peace but under the banners of victory, that the American people will survive in history.
Pagina 41 - I love and I love !" In the winter they're silent — the wind is so strong ; What it says, I don't know, but it sings a loud song. But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather, And singing, and loving — all come back together. But the Lark is so brimful of gladness and love, The green fields below him, the blue sky above, That he sings, and he sings ; and for ever sings he — " I love my Love, and my Love loves me !'
Pagina 137 - Yes, sir, if we must fall, let our last hours be stained by no weakness. If we must fall, let us stand amid the crash of the falling Republic and be buried in its ruins, so that history may take note that men lived in the middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but chastised by God for the sins of their forefathers. Let the ruins of the Republic remain to testify to the latest generations our greatness and our heroism. And let Liberty, crownless and childless, sit upon these ruins,...
Pagina 19 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled, The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.