The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Volume 8Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1895 - Biography |
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... duties he was thus required to per- form . Himself one of " the plain people , " as he called them , he had firm faith ... duty , exemplified the maxim of Emerson , " Hitch your wagon to a star , " and by so doing reached an eternity of ...
... duties he was thus required to per- form . Himself one of " the plain people , " as he called them , he had firm faith ... duty , exemplified the maxim of Emerson , " Hitch your wagon to a star , " and by so doing reached an eternity of ...
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... duty , that there was thenceforth no question that he would be and must be the master - spirit of his cabinet . Each secretary was fully occupied with his own department , but the general course was decided by the President , usually ...
... duty , that there was thenceforth no question that he would be and must be the master - spirit of his cabinet . Each secretary was fully occupied with his own department , but the general course was decided by the President , usually ...
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... duty required . No President ever had closer regard to Jefferson's primary requirements in regard to can- didates for office : " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " Upon entering on his second term , in ...
... duty required . No President ever had closer regard to Jefferson's primary requirements in regard to can- didates for office : " Is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? " Upon entering on his second term , in ...
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... duty of each people to self - government ; this end he sought to realize in all his public acts affecting the same . In his con- duct of the nation during the momentous crisis in which he was the chief executive , he had no ambitious ...
... duty of each people to self - government ; this end he sought to realize in all his public acts affecting the same . In his con- duct of the nation during the momentous crisis in which he was the chief executive , he had no ambitious ...
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... duty , and the more unbreakable and unbendable the determination to do his whole duty and nothing but his duty , though it not only cost his life , but what was infinitely more - though it break his heart . And was it not one continuous ...
... duty , and the more unbreakable and unbendable the determination to do his whole duty and nothing but his duty , though it not only cost his life , but what was infinitely more - though it break his heart . And was it not one continuous ...
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Page 11 - 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 37 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 36 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 37 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 38 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 17 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 45 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up— for you the flag is flung— for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 337 - Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms.
Page 338 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 102 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...