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Pagina 39
... truly After some eight or ten days of official , officious , and cordial hospitality in New York , I deemed it my duty to go to Washing- ton to settle my accounts with the State Department , and as it were , take official leave of ...
... truly After some eight or ten days of official , officious , and cordial hospitality in New York , I deemed it my duty to go to Washing- ton to settle my accounts with the State Department , and as it were , take official leave of ...
Pagina 40
... truly BIGELOW TO HUNTINGTON My dear Huntington : • WASHINGTON , Feby . 28 , 1867 . I came on yesterday from New York where I have been detained by the illness of my boy John . I have seen cleaner streets than are to be found either in ...
... truly BIGELOW TO HUNTINGTON My dear Huntington : • WASHINGTON , Feby . 28 , 1867 . I came on yesterday from New York where I have been detained by the illness of my boy John . I have seen cleaner streets than are to be found either in ...
Pagina 63
... truly P. S. Girardin is prosecuted again and liberty of sale on the street withdrawn from La Liberté , 1 which has now the largest circu- lation of any paper but the Siècle . French home politics have not been so interesting as now ...
... truly P. S. Girardin is prosecuted again and liberty of sale on the street withdrawn from La Liberté , 1 which has now the largest circu- lation of any paper but the Siècle . French home politics have not been so interesting as now ...
Pagina 73
... truly is a world's wonder . Of all the evil and good you hear of it , be sure the praise is best deserved . You ask after Papa Beckwith . I can give you little news of that high commis- sioner . About the time of opening Exhibition ...
... truly is a world's wonder . Of all the evil and good you hear of it , be sure the praise is best deserved . You ask after Papa Beckwith . I can give you little news of that high commis- sioner . About the time of opening Exhibition ...
Pagina 75
... truly [ P. S. ] You should in your morning & evening orisons return thanks that you are out of the Legations . About this time , when dining one day with George Bancroft , I took occasion to suggest to him that he apply to President ...
... truly [ P. S. ] You should in your morning & evening orisons return thanks that you are out of the Legations . About this time , when dining one day with George Bancroft , I took occasion to suggest to him that he apply to President ...
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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,