The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 2F. P. Kaiser, 1901 |
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Page 449
... passing close by Ford's Theatre . O'Laughlin had come to Washington the day before , had sought out his victim , General Grant , at the house of the Secre- tary of War , that he might be able with certainty to identify him , and at the ...
... passing close by Ford's Theatre . O'Laughlin had come to Washington the day before , had sought out his victim , General Grant , at the house of the Secre- tary of War , that he might be able with certainty to identify him , and at the ...
Page 451
... passed to the right , paused a moment , looking down , doubtless to see if Spangler is at his post , and approached the outer door of the close passage leading to the box occupied by the President , pressed it open , passed in , and ...
... passed to the right , paused a moment , looking down , doubtless to see if Spangler is at his post , and approached the outer door of the close passage leading to the box occupied by the President , pressed it open , passed in , and ...
Page 494
... passed . When the history of this period shall be impartially written , when war legislation , meas- ures of reconstruction , protection of human rights , amendments to the Constitution , maintenance of public credit , steps toward ...
... passed . When the history of this period shall be impartially written , when war legislation , meas- ures of reconstruction , protection of human rights , amendments to the Constitution , maintenance of public credit , steps toward ...
Page 496
... passed unnoticed , and , with the general débris of the campaign , fell into oblivion . But in a few instances the ... passing events and current issues . To attempt anything of the kind seemed novel , rash , and even desperate . The ...
... passed unnoticed , and , with the general débris of the campaign , fell into oblivion . But in a few instances the ... passing events and current issues . To attempt anything of the kind seemed novel , rash , and even desperate . The ...
Page 502
... passed ; that troubles lay behind him , and not before him ; that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved , now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to his ...
... passed ; that troubles lay behind him , and not before him ; that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved , now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to his ...
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Page 811 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 554 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 713 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 547 - And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Page 520 - The Congress, the Executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 805 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 710 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Page 734 - ... mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
Page 711 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Page 734 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.