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Pagina 4
... present at a glance the history of preaching in France for three centuries , with its commencement , its prog- ress , its apogee , its decline , and its revival . The first series appeared in sixty - seven volumes quarto for sixty ...
... present at a glance the history of preaching in France for three centuries , with its commencement , its prog- ress , its apogee , its decline , and its revival . The first series appeared in sixty - seven volumes quarto for sixty ...
Pagina 11
... present home for his books , some thirty thousand volumes . He showed me a long letter from some one whose name has escaped me , that had been beheaded , but who enjoyed the distinction of being the first victim of the Royal beheading ...
... present home for his books , some thirty thousand volumes . He showed me a long letter from some one whose name has escaped me , that had been beheaded , but who enjoyed the distinction of being the first victim of the Royal beheading ...
Pagina 20
... present it looks as if the respective incumbents of the White House and of the Capitol were playing at brag , each hoping to break the other & not without a reasonable chance of success for one of the parties ; which one does not yet ...
... present it looks as if the respective incumbents of the White House and of the Capitol were playing at brag , each hoping to break the other & not without a reasonable chance of success for one of the parties ; which one does not yet ...
Pagina 44
... present controversies to questions which will then seem of superior importance . " On the 2d of March the President sent to the Senate two vetoes , perhaps the most important that any President of the United States has up to the present ...
... present controversies to questions which will then seem of superior importance . " On the 2d of March the President sent to the Senate two vetoes , perhaps the most important that any President of the United States has up to the present ...
Pagina 45
... present incumbent is a nullity and will be treated as such . " I was so shocked by this kind of talk that I began to doubt whether the Constitution was in safer hands now than it had been when the South was in the saddle . I had this ...
... present incumbent is a nullity and will be treated as such . " I was so shocked by this kind of talk that I began to doubt whether the Constitution was in safer hands now than it had been when the South was in the saddle . I had this ...
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Pagina 174 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Pagina 454 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Pagina 78 - I do not recognize you as capable of judging, or even fully apprehending me. You evidently regard me as a weak sentimentalist, misled by a maudlin philosophy. I arraign you as narrow-minded blockheads, who would like to be useful to a great and good cause, but don't know how.
Pagina 91 - In the mean time, that hard-to-begoverned passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way, which were attended with some expense and great inconvenience, besides a continual risque to my health by a distemper which of all things I dreaded, though by great good luck I escaped it.
Pagina 124 - Stanton, being at the time commander-in-chief of the Northern troops that were concentrated about here, arrived rather late, indeed, they were waiting for him, and, on his entering the room, the President broke off in something he was saying, and remarked : " Let us proceed to business, gentlemen.
Pagina 91 - Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Pagina 78 - HORACE GREELEY, a member of the Club, who has become a bondsman for Jefferson Davis, late chief officer of the Rebel government." Mr. Jay continues : " As I have reason to believe that the signers, or some of them, disapprove of the conduct which they propose the Club shall consider, it is clearly due...
Pagina 45 - The seceded states to be restored to their place in the union, whenever a convention of delegates, "elected by the male citizens, ... of whatever race, color, or previous condition," except those disfranchised for participation in rebellion, etc., should frame a constitution, which, being ratified by the people and approved by congress, should go into operation, and the legislature thereupon elected should adopt the fourteenth amendment.
Pagina 124 - I don't know — I don't know. But it will happen, and shortly, too.' As they were all impressed by his manner, the Attorney - General took him up again. ' Have you received any information, Sir, not yet disclosed to us?' 'No,' answered the President,