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... interest cannot easily be compensated . To all of them , and particularly to Louis A. Johnson , Esq . , and other friends in Clarksburg , the author freely acknowledges his indebtedness , and expresses the hope that they may find in the ...
... interest cannot easily be compensated . To all of them , and particularly to Louis A. Johnson , Esq . , and other friends in Clarksburg , the author freely acknowledges his indebtedness , and expresses the hope that they may find in the ...
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... interest in community affairs , found politics absorbing and never failed to follow the day's news . Her versa ... interests , always , were her husband and her home . After that , in the words of her daughters : " Study was her life ...
... interest in community affairs , found politics absorbing and never failed to follow the day's news . Her versa ... interests , always , were her husband and her home . After that , in the words of her daughters : " Study was her life ...
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... interest or patronage , The Star and The Comet finally flickered and died , like many another . Any one spending more than a day or two in Clarks- burg for the purpose of learning at first hand some- thing of the boyhood life of John ...
... interest or patronage , The Star and The Comet finally flickered and died , like many another . Any one spending more than a day or two in Clarks- burg for the purpose of learning at first hand some- thing of the boyhood life of John ...
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... interests neglected during college days , for he sang in the Presbyterian choir in Lexing- ton , and in the university quartet and glee club , later becoming its President . Among almost a score of voices in the glee club there were ...
... interests neglected during college days , for he sang in the Presbyterian choir in Lexing- ton , and in the university quartet and glee club , later becoming its President . Among almost a score of voices in the glee club there were ...
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... interest in Julia , the second daughter , an attractive girl of serious mind and strong character , was more than the impersonal interest of teacher for pupil . Pro- pinquity encouraged their association , and finding much in common ...
... interest in Julia , the second daughter , an attractive girl of serious mind and strong character , was more than the impersonal interest of teacher for pupil . Pro- pinquity encouraged their association , and finding much in common ...
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Page 252 - A treaty entering the Senate is like a bull going into the arena: no one can say just how or when the final blow will fall — but one thing is certain — it will never leave the arena alive.
Page 166 - Constitution in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, and to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity, intended to empower the Federal Government to exclude slavery from the Territories.
Page 256 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our...
Page 155 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Page 155 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 242 - A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff!
Page 284 - that all men ... are endowed by their creator with [inalienable rights to] life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness [and] that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.