Recollections of a LifetimeNeale Publishing Company, 1906 - 266 páginas |
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... heard his declaration and blushed very deeply , but she did not deny the soft im- peachment . In the war of 1812 Joel Leftwich was a brigadier - general , and in that capacity rendered conspicuous service . He com- manded the Virginia ...
... heard his declaration and blushed very deeply , but she did not deny the soft im- peachment . In the war of 1812 Joel Leftwich was a brigadier - general , and in that capacity rendered conspicuous service . He com- manded the Virginia ...
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... heard the address of Gen. Leslie Combs , of Kentucky , the orator of the day , which still lingers in my memory . Being introduced by the chairman of the meeting he stood a moment and surveyed the vast audience before he uttered a word ...
... heard the address of Gen. Leslie Combs , of Kentucky , the orator of the day , which still lingers in my memory . Being introduced by the chairman of the meeting he stood a moment and surveyed the vast audience before he uttered a word ...
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... heard my father and others speak of the traditional fame of two great Bedford lawyers , Chris- topher Clark and Callohill Mennis , who were said to be almost omnipotent before the juries of the county . The latter was cut off in the ...
... heard my father and others speak of the traditional fame of two great Bedford lawyers , Chris- topher Clark and Callohill Mennis , who were said to be almost omnipotent before the juries of the county . The latter was cut off in the ...
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... heard the latter say that " Nick " Cobbs , as he called him , was born a Christian , that in all their intercourse he never heard him utter an immoral jest or make use of any expression BY JOHN GOODE OF VIRGINIA 19.
... heard the latter say that " Nick " Cobbs , as he called him , was born a Christian , that in all their intercourse he never heard him utter an immoral jest or make use of any expression BY JOHN GOODE OF VIRGINIA 19.
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... heard to say that when he passed away he desired to be buried beneath the shadow of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in sight of the Peaks of Otter . Rev. James Turner , of the Presbyterian Church , was not only a great pulpit orator ...
... heard to say that when he passed away he desired to be buried beneath the shadow of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in sight of the Peaks of Otter . Rev. James Turner , of the Presbyterian Church , was not only a great pulpit orator ...
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Página 251 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 200 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire to it ; they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force.
Página 200 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Página 190 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Página 189 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Página 49 - The States, then, being the parties to the Constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and, consequently, that, as the parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.
Página 130 - Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate...
Página 240 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 79 - Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce ; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation ; in all which cases such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.
Página 78 - We, the People of the Confederate States, each State acting in its Sovereign and Independent character, in order to form a Permanent Federal Government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.