Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglas, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and BeecherHartford Publishing Company, 1868 - 575 pages This volume contains brief biographical sketches of several leading politicians, clergymen, reformers and thinkers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's day, including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass. |
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... never - ceasing and strenuous course of laborious thought and reasoning that he kept up , upon the meaning , the connection , the ten- dency , the right and wrong , the helps or remedies , of all the past facts he read of , or of the ...
... never - ceasing and strenuous course of laborious thought and reasoning that he kept up , upon the meaning , the connection , the ten- dency , the right and wrong , the helps or remedies , of all the past facts he read of , or of the ...
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... never have made him a lawyer , not to say President . The education which gave him his success in life was his self - training in the ability to understand and to state facts and principles about men and things . In 1836 our ...
... never have made him a lawyer , not to say President . The education which gave him his success in life was his self - training in the ability to understand and to state facts and principles about men and things . In 1836 our ...
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... it by him , awaiting the legal call for it . At paying it over , he remarked that he never used , even temporarily , any money that was not his . This money , he added , he felt belonged to the government , and he had no right to.
... it by him , awaiting the legal call for it . At paying it over , he remarked that he never used , even temporarily , any money that was not his . This money , he added , he felt belonged to the government , and he had no right to.
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... never engaged in it , knowingly ; if a man desired to re- tain him whose cause was bad , he declined , and told the applicant not to go to law . A lady once came to him to have him prosecute a claim to some land , and gave him the ...
... never engaged in it , knowingly ; if a man desired to re- tain him whose cause was bad , he declined , and told the applicant not to go to law . A lady once came to him to have him prosecute a claim to some land , and gave him the ...
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... never took but one large fee , and that his friends insisted on his taking . This was $ 5,000 from the Illinois Central Railroad Company , one of the richest corporations in the country , and for very valuable services in a very ...
... never took but one large fee , and that his friends insisted on his taking . This was $ 5,000 from the Illinois Central Railroad Company , one of the richest corporations in the country , and for very valuable services in a very ...
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Page 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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 the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 335 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 79 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Page 55 - If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and...
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.