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... things that count . For conviction he rests his case on facts and logic , concisely marshaled . His emo- tional nature runs deep , but not too deep , beneath the reserve of his race . Candid eyes , a projecting chin , a quick but quiet ...
... things that count . For conviction he rests his case on facts and logic , concisely marshaled . His emo- tional nature runs deep , but not too deep , beneath the reserve of his race . Candid eyes , a projecting chin , a quick but quiet ...
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... thing about politics and never did . " Another of the same variety is that things have come " too easy " for him - the old story of Lady Luck . Like many such remarks , these are half- truths which permit inaccurate inferences . It so ...
... thing about politics and never did . " Another of the same variety is that things have come " too easy " for him - the old story of Lady Luck . Like many such remarks , these are half- truths which permit inaccurate inferences . It so ...
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... Things " -boasts of its hundreds of mem- bers . On public occasions it turns them loose to put Clarksburg on the map . Downtown eating places abound , from the one - armed Ladies ' Lunch to the more pretentious places on Pike Street ...
... Things " -boasts of its hundreds of mem- bers . On public occasions it turns them loose to put Clarksburg on the map . Downtown eating places abound , from the one - armed Ladies ' Lunch to the more pretentious places on Pike Street ...
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... things were diversions . Her major interests , always , were her husband and her home . After that , in the words of her daughters : " Study was her life . " II Back in the ' seventies and early ' eighties young John Davis was regarded ...
... things were diversions . Her major interests , always , were her husband and her home . After that , in the words of her daughters : " Study was her life . " II Back in the ' seventies and early ' eighties young John Davis was regarded ...
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... thing had happened , for he , like all three sisters , seems always to have been able to comprehend the printed word . For the first ten years of his life his formal educa- tion was planned and personally directed by his moth- er . A ...
... thing had happened , for he , like all three sisters , seems always to have been able to comprehend the printed word . For the first ten years of his life his formal educa- tion was planned and personally directed by his moth- er . A ...
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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.