The End of an EraHoughton, Mifflin, 1899 - 474 páginas |
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... arms and baptized me at the American legation in Rio , April 14 , 1847 . In the spring of 1847 , my father asked the President for a recall ; and , his petition being granted , the United States frigate Columbia was placed at his ...
... arms and baptized me at the American legation in Rio , April 14 , 1847 . In the spring of 1847 , my father asked the President for a recall ; and , his petition being granted , the United States frigate Columbia was placed at his ...
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... arms in Mexico during his absence ; his deep sense that , with restored health and the youth remaining to him , there was still much of his life's work before him ; his gratitude to God for this restoration to his own people ; his deep ...
... arms in Mexico during his absence ; his deep sense that , with restored health and the youth remaining to him , there was still much of his life's work before him ; his gratitude to God for this restoration to his own people ; his deep ...
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... arms and half - closed eyes , resentfully brooding upon the hard fate which had twice made him a widower . At a turn of the road they passed a silver maple , whose faultless form and beautiful coloring in springtime and in autumn had so ...
... arms and half - closed eyes , resentfully brooding upon the hard fate which had twice made him a widower . At a turn of the road they passed a silver maple , whose faultless form and beautiful coloring in springtime and in autumn had so ...
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... arms with rapturous kisses . One by one we were snatched and hugged and kissed , and pushed backwards up the steps , with orders to run in out of the rain , while he busied himself for a moment giving direc- tions concerning his luggage ...
... arms with rapturous kisses . One by one we were snatched and hugged and kissed , and pushed backwards up the steps , with orders to run in out of the rain , while he busied himself for a moment giving direc- tions concerning his luggage ...
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... arms about him , and buried their faces upon his shoulder sobbing , the prattling mo- therless children paused in their merriment to wonder why their grief should give itself new vent upon an occa- sion so joyous as papa's return . But ...
... arms about him , and buried their faces upon his shoulder sobbing , the prattling mo- therless children paused in their merriment to wonder why their grief should give itself new vent upon an occa- sion so joyous as papa's return . But ...
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Página 462 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Página 287 - How beautiful this night ! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Página 127 - The foregoing articles shall not be construed so as in any way to encourage the overthrow of any State Government or of the General Government of the United States, and look to no dissolution of the Union, but simply to amendment and repeal, and our flag shall be the same that our fathers fought under in the Revolution.
Página 462 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
Página 435 - ... There is no country. There has been no country, General, for a year or more. You are the country to these men. They have fought for you. They have shivered through a long winter for you. Without pay or clothes or care of any sort, their devotion to you and faith in you have been the only things that have held this army together. If you demand the sacrifice, there are still left thousands of us who will die for you.
Página 135 - Virginia by conspiracy, ambush, invasion, and force," and to add that " this attempt to execute an unlawful purpose in Virginia by invasion, involving servile war, was an act of sedition and treason, and criminal in just the extent that it affected the public peace and was destructive of human happiness and life.
Página 453 - General Johnston, General Sherman is a hog. Yes, sir, a hog. Did you see him take that drink by himself...
Página 127 - ... another portion, the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude, or absolute extermination in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence: Therefore, We, the citizens of the United States, and the oppressed people, who, by a...
Página 451 - With an air of content, he stroked his mustache and took a fresh chew of tobacco. Then they settled down to business, and Breckinridge never shone more brilliantly than he did in the discussions which followed. He seemed to have at his tongue's end every rule and maxim of international and constitutional law, and of the laws of war, — international wars, civil wars, and wars of rebellion. In fact, he was so resourceful, cogent, persuasive, learned, that, at one stage of the proceedings, General...
Página 131 - Let me say one word further. I feel entirely satisfied with the treatment I have received on my trial. Considering all the circumstances, it has been more generous than I expected.