The Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine: With Incidents, Anecdotes, and Romantic Events Connected with His Early Life; Containing Also His Speeches and Important Historical Documents Relating to His Later YearsScranton, 1884 - 504 páginas |
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Página 57
... equal list of educated sons , whether to fill her own high places or to lead society in other counties , and states . And receiving from far and near beyond her own borders the youth of other communities , she has sent them back by ...
... equal list of educated sons , whether to fill her own high places or to lead society in other counties , and states . And receiving from far and near beyond her own borders the youth of other communities , she has sent them back by ...
Página 88
... equal in the matter of giving - Mr . Blaine's much loved friend , ex - Gov . Abner Coburn of Skowhegan . People have misjudged Mr. Blaine's wealth by this very trait of liberal giving . Measured by that , by the ordinary tests , he ...
... equal in the matter of giving - Mr . Blaine's much loved friend , ex - Gov . Abner Coburn of Skowhegan . People have misjudged Mr. Blaine's wealth by this very trait of liberal giving . Measured by that , by the ordinary tests , he ...
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... equal in the profession in the country . Had he chosen a business life , his wealth would have equaled that of Vanderbilt . " To which may be added this from another neighbor : " A little incident that I noticed fully illustrates the 90 ...
... equal in the profession in the country . Had he chosen a business life , his wealth would have equaled that of Vanderbilt . " To which may be added this from another neighbor : " A little incident that I noticed fully illustrates the 90 ...
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... equal in wisdom to the rules of etiquette which forbade the French- man drowning in the river from calling on a passer - by to rescue him , because he did not enjoy the acquaintance of the gentleman , and such a liberty would be ...
... equal in wisdom to the rules of etiquette which forbade the French- man drowning in the river from calling on a passer - by to rescue him , because he did not enjoy the acquaintance of the gentleman , and such a liberty would be ...
Página 121
... equal generosity was shown by the Republicans at the last election . They went so far even as to place their life - long opponent , Daniel S. Dickinson , at the head of their State ticket , and gave the Democrats half of the remainder ...
... equal generosity was shown by the Republicans at the last election . They went so far even as to place their life - long opponent , Daniel S. Dickinson , at the head of their State ticket , and gave the Democrats half of the remainder ...
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The Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine: With Incidents, Anecdotes ... Russell H. Conwell Visualização integral - 1884 |
The Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine: With Incidents, Anecdotes ... Russell H. Conwell Visualização integral - 1884 |
The Life and Public Services of James G. Blaine: With Incidents, Anecdotes ... Russell H. Conwell Visualização integral - 1884 |
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Abraham Lincoln amendment American Andersonville army Augusta battle bill Blaine Blaine's bonds Brownsville campaign candidate Chairman Chinese citizen civil coin command Confederate Congress Constitution Convention corps currency danger Davis debt declared Democratic party duty elected emigration enemy Ephraim L export favor Five-twenty Fourteenth Amendment friends Garfield gentleman from Thomaston give gold Government honor House hundred millions interest issue James G Jefferson Davis John Judge labor land legal-tender legislation Legislature Little Rock Logan loyal Maine measure ment millions of dollars nation negro never nomination officers Ohio Pacific patriotic payment peace political population President prisoners proposition question Railroad rebellion rebels Representatives Republic Republican party Robert Toombs Secretary Senate slave slavery soldiers South Southern Speaker speech suffrage thousand tion to-day Treasury troops Union Union army Union Pacific Railroad United vote Washington Washington County
Passagens conhecidas
Página 97 - ... to provide and maintain a navy, and to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces...
Página 98 - The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite ; and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed. This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances ; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defence.
Página 111 - The Union must be preserved; and hence all indispensable means must be employed. We should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the disloyal, are indispensable.
Página 120 - A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of selfpreservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us ; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.
Página 394 - Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longedfor healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices.
Página 264 - Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.
Página 409 - The Republican party, having its birth in a hatred of slave labor and a desire that all men may be truly free and equal, is unalterably opposed to placing our workingmen in competition with any form of servile labor, whether at home or abroad.
Página 360 - I repeat, in conclusion, that it is the right and the duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests.
Página 386 - No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? — But who comes here ? Enter ESCALUS, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
Página 111 - In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle. I have therefore in every case thought it proper to keep the integrity of the Union prominent as the primary object of the contest on our part, leaving all questions which are not of vital military importance to the more deliberate action of the Legislature.