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... thought it the duty of an honest citizen to stand by his own country and help it along . He had evidently thought nothing whatever about it , and was launching his doctrine on the inspira- tion of the moment . The doctrine ex- panded ...
... thought it the duty of an honest citizen to stand by his own country and help it along . He had evidently thought nothing whatever about it , and was launching his doctrine on the inspira- tion of the moment . The doctrine ex- panded ...
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... thought a great deal of ; & kept it a good while ; but at last he lost it beyond recovery . It took years to heal the wound ; & I think he eried at times about it . About Five months after this he caught a young Squirrel tearing off his ...
... thought a great deal of ; & kept it a good while ; but at last he lost it beyond recovery . It took years to heal the wound ; & I think he eried at times about it . About Five months after this he caught a young Squirrel tearing off his ...
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... thought well drilled , but lacking individual prow- ess ; for that he gave the palm , and justly , to our own countrymen . He re- turned from Europe more in love than before with American institutions , and more than ever convinced that ...
... thought well drilled , but lacking individual prow- ess ; for that he gave the palm , and justly , to our own countrymen . He re- turned from Europe more in love than before with American institutions , and more than ever convinced that ...
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... thought that liberty for the negro meant some- thing more than " the glorious privilege of work , " as Andrew Johnson once de- fined it . Nor did he believe in grad- ual emancipation , as Abraham Lincoln did , nor in peaceful ...
... thought that liberty for the negro meant some- thing more than " the glorious privilege of work , " as Andrew Johnson once de- fined it . Nor did he believe in grad- ual emancipation , as Abraham Lincoln did , nor in peaceful ...
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neck , and strained me to his breast with such violence that I thought I should have died on the spot . As soon as I was able , I loosened his arms and pushed him softly backwards towards the bed . He sank down passively and his head ...
neck , and strained me to his breast with such violence that I thought I should have died on the spot . As soon as I was able , I loosened his arms and pushed him softly backwards towards the bed . He sank down passively and his head ...
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Seite 555 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Seite 128 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Seite 322 - In view of the adjudications these principles must be regarded as settled : " 1. A railroad corporation is a person within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment declaring that no state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Seite 488 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat "like a Guinea?" O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Seite 483 - Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 69 - WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village* on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life...
Seite 375 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World.
Seite 289 - All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!
Seite 219 - You— you— don't know?" mimicking my drawling manner of speech. "What do you know?" "I— I— nothing, for certain." "By the great Caesar's ghost, I believe you! You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses! The idea of you being a pilot— you! Why, you don't know enough to pilot a cow down a lane.
Seite 471 - I slept soundly till three o'clock, awaked, and then wrote these lines : — Come, pleasing rest, eternal slumber, fall, Seal mine, that once must seal the eyes of all ; Calm and composed, my soul her journey takes, No guilt that troubles, and no heart that aches ; Adieu ! thou sun, all bright like her arise ; Adieu ! fair friends, and all that's good and wise.