Cyrus Northrop: A Memoir

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University of Minnesota Press, 1925 - 634 pages

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Page 461 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 164 - If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.
Page 572 - President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity...
Page 149 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Page 439 - Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Page 242 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 202 - HERE we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder ! It's a fact o* wich ther's bushils o' proofs ; Fer how could we trample on't so, I wonder, Eft worn't thet it's oilers under our hoofs ? " Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he ; " Human rights haint no more Right to come on this floor, No more'n the man in the moon,
Page 376 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Page 203 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 102 - It was the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, till I confess it began to be something of a bore to me.

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