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... lawyers of the State- from a tyro in debate to a convincing orator . He became a senator of the United States and served with great distinction . He it was who drew the 13th Amendment to the Federal Constitution . He and Abraham Lincoln ...
... lawyers of the State- from a tyro in debate to a convincing orator . He became a senator of the United States and served with great distinction . He it was who drew the 13th Amendment to the Federal Constitution . He and Abraham Lincoln ...
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... lawyer of Troy , who was also school commissioner for the County , and who gave me my first certificate to teach school . In one of the last - mentioned districts , a man by the name of Willis Jones ( elsewhere mentioned as a Baptist ...
... lawyer of Troy , who was also school commissioner for the County , and who gave me my first certificate to teach school . In one of the last - mentioned districts , a man by the name of Willis Jones ( elsewhere mentioned as a Baptist ...
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... more than I. With such learning as I had been able to acquire , I determined to enter a law office somewhere and do my best to become a lawyer . IV STUDY OF THE LAW Leaving Home - Bowling Green 54 Autobiography and Reminiscences.
... more than I. With such learning as I had been able to acquire , I determined to enter a law office somewhere and do my best to become a lawyer . IV STUDY OF THE LAW Leaving Home - Bowling Green 54 Autobiography and Reminiscences.
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... lawyer by the name of Campbell now the Honorable Robert A. Campbell . He seemed to know of my coming and it was not long before I was comfortably seated in what appeared a very large room . This office was on the second floor of a two ...
... lawyer by the name of Campbell now the Honorable Robert A. Campbell . He seemed to know of my coming and it was not long before I was comfortably seated in what appeared a very large room . This office was on the second floor of a two ...
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... lawyer . He was a conceited sort of chap and did not hesitate to try to answer any question that might be asked him . He too went to another church on Sunday and when he returned the Judge asked him the same question he had me , " Did ...
... lawyer . He was a conceited sort of chap and did not hesitate to try to answer any question that might be asked him . He too went to another church on Sunday and when he returned the Judge asked him the same question he had me , " Did ...
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Page 38 - And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Page 319 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — .left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight way out of the water : and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : and, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 38 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 319 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
Page 233 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 233 - ... they shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years; and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the constitution or laws of the United States.
Page 319 - It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
Page 233 - ... the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than...
Page 72 - His justice can not sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery by a public act; and as the prospects of a general emancipation grew more and more dim, he, in utter hopelessness of the action of the State, did all that he could by bequeathing freedom to his own slaves. Good and true men had, from the days of...