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... served as President of the American Bar Association , and while in London was made a Bencher of the Middle Temple . Jefferson's reading is said to have covered a remarkable range . In Davis ' speeches may be found quotations from al ...
... served as President of the American Bar Association , and while in London was made a Bencher of the Middle Temple . Jefferson's reading is said to have covered a remarkable range . In Davis ' speeches may be found quotations from al ...
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... served two terms as a member of the House of Representatives in Wash- ington , from 1871 to 1875 , in the Forty - second and Forty - third Congress . This was during the recon- struction period , one of the darkest chapters in American ...
... served two terms as a member of the House of Representatives in Wash- ington , from 1871 to 1875 , in the Forty - second and Forty - third Congress . This was during the recon- struction period , one of the darkest chapters in American ...
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... serving as ambassador to Great Britain : " Wherever the Scotchman has gone , his watchword and shibboleth has always been ' Education ! Educa- tion ! ' He has made an unceasing effort to hand down to future generations all the wisdom ...
... serving as ambassador to Great Britain : " Wherever the Scotchman has gone , his watchword and shibboleth has always been ' Education ! Educa- tion ! ' He has made an unceasing effort to hand down to future generations all the wisdom ...
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... served . One relates to the organization of a fraternity ushered into the academy circle under the mysterious designation " S. U. V. " , the second to another adven- ture in journalism , and the third to an incident that taught him the ...
... served . One relates to the organization of a fraternity ushered into the academy circle under the mysterious designation " S. U. V. " , the second to another adven- ture in journalism , and the third to an incident that taught him the ...
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... served that he had been painfully grieved to learn that some member of the student body had so far forgotten himself as to dishonor the memory of the Father of his Country , and that he was sure the act was the result of thoughtlessness ...
... served that he had been painfully grieved to learn that some member of the student body had so far forgotten himself as to dishonor the memory of the Father of his Country , and that he was sure the act was the result of thoughtlessness ...
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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.