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... seemed im- minent . In the midst of the excitement thus engendered , Congress met ; and the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means introduced a Bill , pro- posing a sweeping and radical reduction of the Tariff , so as to ...
... seemed im- minent . In the midst of the excitement thus engendered , Congress met ; and the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means introduced a Bill , pro- posing a sweeping and radical reduction of the Tariff , so as to ...
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... seemed so rich . My brothers fully expected that I should be appointed Professor at the University on my return from Athens , but my father had another idea - he hoped I should come back married . In his capacity of innkeeper he had ...
... seemed so rich . My brothers fully expected that I should be appointed Professor at the University on my return from Athens , but my father had another idea - he hoped I should come back married . In his capacity of innkeeper he had ...
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... seemed ill at ease in Parisian stays . Her feet , rounded like a flat iron , seemed suffering torture ; they were made for wearing papooshes , and not to be squeezed in Balmoral boots . Her face so little reminded you of the Greek type ...
... seemed ill at ease in Parisian stays . Her feet , rounded like a flat iron , seemed suffering torture ; they were made for wearing papooshes , and not to be squeezed in Balmoral boots . Her face so little reminded you of the Greek type ...
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... seemed to have made a mistake ; for when she tried the key , she could not open the instrument . At length she started up impatiently , and cried , -- " Come hither , Gluck , and help me ! " Gluck tried his hand in vain ; the others ...
... seemed to have made a mistake ; for when she tried the key , she could not open the instrument . At length she started up impatiently , and cried , -- " Come hither , Gluck , and help me ! " Gluck tried his hand in vain ; the others ...
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... seemed as if the light pursued the shadow with relentless hostility , driving it onward , onward , until its dusky banner was torn and rent amid the distant forest of pines . So the cloud fled from my heart , pursued by a name that ...
... seemed as if the light pursued the shadow with relentless hostility , driving it onward , onward , until its dusky banner was torn and rent amid the distant forest of pines . So the cloud fled from my heart , pursued by a name that ...
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Page 4 - The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States ; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States...
Page 198 - No one venerates the peerage more than I do ; but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage.
Page 199 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonoured. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted, whose properties he has destroyed, whose country he has laid waste and desolate.
Page 485 - Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws...
Page 4 - In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.
Page 72 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 104 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan...
Page 4 - But Congress may, by law, grant to the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, a seat upon the floor of either House, with the privilege of discussing any measures appertaining to his department.
Page 577 - ... one of our companie looking over boord saw a mermaid, and calling up some of the companie to see her, one more came up, and by that time shee was come close to the ship's side, looking earnestly on the men: a little after, a sea came and overturned her: from the...
Page 485 - Quits mutton-bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.