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... United States from Washington to Benjamin Harrison , and her life has therefore been co- extensive with the establishment and growth of the United States . She will be buried on Tuesday next in the old family burying ground in Lincoln ...
... United States from Washington to Benjamin Harrison , and her life has therefore been co- extensive with the establishment and growth of the United States . She will be buried on Tuesday next in the old family burying ground in Lincoln ...
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... united , and it was a disgrace and re- proach to countenance divorce . Men and women married each other for love - now in many cases for money and position . These comments may be a little out of place here , but the facts as I knew ...
... united , and it was a disgrace and re- proach to countenance divorce . Men and women married each other for love - now in many cases for money and position . These comments may be a little out of place here , but the facts as I knew ...
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... United States . If ever there was a self - made man in this country , John Brooks Henderson was that man . He rose from absolute poverty to affluence , and from an uneducated youth to a great scholar , from a student of law while he ...
... United States . If ever there was a self - made man in this country , John Brooks Henderson was that man . He rose from absolute poverty to affluence , and from an uneducated youth to a great scholar , from a student of law while he ...
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... United States , with an uncompromising hatred . When we returned from the service I was accosted by the Judge , who asked me if I had heard anything new at the church . I answered " Yes , " and proceeded to say how perfectly appropriate ...
... United States , with an uncompromising hatred . When we returned from the service I was accosted by the Judge , who asked me if I had heard anything new at the church . I answered " Yes , " and proceeded to say how perfectly appropriate ...
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... decision in the Dred Scott case had been made by the Supreme Court of the United States , in which it denied to Scott , a negro , the right of freedom . The Court was bitterly assailed by some for its decision , and vigor- 1858-1860 75.
... decision in the Dred Scott case had been made by the Supreme Court of the United States , in which it denied to Scott , a negro , the right of freedom . The Court was bitterly assailed by some for its decision , and vigor- 1858-1860 75.
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Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway 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...
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 228 - SEC. 2. That section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : "SEC. 3929. The Postmaster-General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind...
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 323 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
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 246 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 232 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or Intimidate any citizen in the free exercise of any right or privilege secured to him 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 228 - States is at war, the Postmaster' General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or concern is using the mails in violation of any of the provisions of this act, instruct the postmaster at any post office at which mail is received addressed to such person or concern to return to the postmaster at the office at which they were originally mailed all letters or other matter so addressed...