Public Letters and Papers of Thomas Walter Bickett, Governor of North Carolina, 1917-1921 |
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... issues were quoted widely and his addresses comprise a distinct contribution to Southern Oratory . On December 27 , 1921 , less than a year after he had returned to the practice of the law in Raleigh , he was stricken with apoplexy and ...
... issues were quoted widely and his addresses comprise a distinct contribution to Southern Oratory . On December 27 , 1921 , less than a year after he had returned to the practice of the law in Raleigh , he was stricken with apoplexy and ...
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... issue for the salary of any teacher save upon certificate that the prescribed course in agriculture had been fully and faithfully taught . ―― Every country boy who can spell " baker " ought to have hammered into him the great and simple ...
... issue for the salary of any teacher save upon certificate that the prescribed course in agriculture had been fully and faithfully taught . ―― Every country boy who can spell " baker " ought to have hammered into him the great and simple ...
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... issue an edict declaring that from and after five years from date any man who imported into North Carolina any corn or meal , wheat or flour , beef or bacon , should forth- with be hanged without trial by jury , and without benefit of ...
... issue an edict declaring that from and after five years from date any man who imported into North Carolina any corn or meal , wheat or flour , beef or bacon , should forth- with be hanged without trial by jury , and without benefit of ...
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... issue proposition . 5. The full amount asked for traveling libraries should be appropriated , as these libraries are doing a great work for the enrichment of the social and in- tellectual life of our country communities . The ...
... issue proposition . 5. The full amount asked for traveling libraries should be appropriated , as these libraries are doing a great work for the enrichment of the social and in- tellectual life of our country communities . The ...
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... issue these bonds and then refuse to adopt these just measures in the interest of the men and women on whose labor and in whose blood rest the enduring progress and safety of the State . Respectfully submitted , T. W. BICKETT , Governor ...
... issue these bonds and then refuse to adopt these just measures in the interest of the men and women on whose labor and in whose blood rest the enduring progress and safety of the State . Respectfully submitted , T. W. BICKETT , Governor ...
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Page 226 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 41 - SEC. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.
Page 163 - Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 101 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Page 228 - And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
Page 377 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 226 - Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain. She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things. The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that...
Page 244 - States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.
Page 241 - An old man going a lone highway, came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Page 377 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.