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... John Jacob Astor ; William B. Astor ; Washington Irving ; Middle Hall ; J. G. Cogswell ; North Hall ; South Hall ; Page from Book of Hours ; Ground - plan of the Astor Library . BEYOND THE BRIDGE ..... BOLD NEW ENGLAND ROVer , A ...
... John Jacob Astor ; William B. Astor ; Washington Irving ; Middle Hall ; J. G. Cogswell ; North Hall ; South Hall ; Page from Book of Hours ; Ground - plan of the Astor Library . BEYOND THE BRIDGE ..... BOLD NEW ENGLAND ROVer , A ...
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... JOHN , CUT THE RED Cross from THE FLAG , HOW .... ETHICS IN POLITICS . FRIENDLY INDIANS AT MASHPEE , AMONG THE ... John F. Hartranft ; General John C. Robinson ; The Soldiers ' Monument on Boston Common ; William Earnshaw ; General Louis ...
... JOHN , CUT THE RED Cross from THE FLAG , HOW .... ETHICS IN POLITICS . FRIENDLY INDIANS AT MASHPEE , AMONG THE ... John F. Hartranft ; General John C. Robinson ; The Soldiers ' Monument on Boston Common ; William Earnshaw ; General Louis ...
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... John G. B. Adams .... Illustrations : The Massachusetts Soldiers ' Home at Chelsea ; The Dining - Room ; The Smoking - Room ; General James A. Cunningham ; Mrs. James A. Cunningham ; General Horace Binney Sargent ; Sar- gent Hall ; Mrs ...
... John G. B. Adams .... Illustrations : The Massachusetts Soldiers ' Home at Chelsea ; The Dining - Room ; The Smoking - Room ; General James A. Cunningham ; Mrs. James A. Cunningham ; General Horace Binney Sargent ; Sar- gent Hall ; Mrs ...
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... John Vance Cheney .. Bessie Chandler ... Allen Eastman Cross . .A . T. Shuman ... .L . Blanche Fearing . .Irene Putnam . Zitella Cocke . Richard E. Burton .. 598 457 69 39 43 714 661 448 173 193 .Allen Eastman Cross .. 668 .Nellie ...
... John Vance Cheney .. Bessie Chandler ... Allen Eastman Cross . .A . T. Shuman ... .L . Blanche Fearing . .Irene Putnam . Zitella Cocke . Richard E. Burton .. 598 457 69 39 43 714 661 448 173 193 .Allen Eastman Cross .. 668 .Nellie ...
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... John Jay , First Chief Justice of the United States. been no boats out . Since then I have been to Lancaster . In my route I called at Harvard where I spent one night with Deacon W - ney , who with his good wife expressed much pleasure ...
... John Jay , First Chief Justice of the United States. been no boats out . Since then I have been to Lancaster . In my route I called at Harvard where I spent one night with Deacon W - ney , who with his good wife expressed much pleasure ...
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Page 87 - ... testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, halfstarved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds; having fought to exhaustion, he surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot the old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey.
Page 515 - He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hand's light caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. "I'm sorry that I spelt the word: I hate to go above you, Because," — the brown eyes lower fell, — "Because, you see, I love you!
Page 36 - If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals.
Page 353 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 479 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 107 - Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 90 - Will she withhold, save in strained courtesy, the hand which, straight from his soldier's heart, Grant offered to Lee at Appomattox? Will she make the vision of a restored and happy people, which gathered above the couch of your dying captain, filling his heart with grace, touching his lips with praise and glorifying his path to the...
Page 353 - ... a primary object of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
Page 89 - ... brave and simple faith. Not for all the glories of New England — from Plymouth Rock all the way — would I exchange the heritage he left me in his soldier's death. To the foot of that shaft I shall send my children's children to reverence him who ennobled their name with his heroic blood.
Page 88 - It is a rare privilege, sir, to have had part, however humble, in this work. Never was nobler duty confided to human hands than the uplifting and upbuilding of the prostrate and bleeding South — misguided, perhaps, but beautiful in her suffering, and honest, brave and generous always.