Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party: A Biography and a History, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1917 |
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... less secret history to disclose . Senator Burrows lived in the open , fought his battles in public , and left to his biographer the pleasure of recording and analyzing rather than the task of explaining . This record covers so long a ...
... less secret history to disclose . Senator Burrows lived in the open , fought his battles in public , and left to his biographer the pleasure of recording and analyzing rather than the task of explaining . This record covers so long a ...
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... less than a summons to a crusade of righteousness , into which he threw him- self with the fiery impetuosity of youth , and with an intensity of unwavering devotion which abided with him throughout his long political career . " It was ...
... less than a summons to a crusade of righteousness , into which he threw him- self with the fiery impetuosity of youth , and with an intensity of unwavering devotion which abided with him throughout his long political career . " It was ...
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... less that fifty dollars seldom passed through a farmer's hands in a year . Payment was made in kind rather than in coin , and every sort of farm prod- uce was legal tender at the printing - office . Wood was welcome in any quantity ...
... less that fifty dollars seldom passed through a farmer's hands in a year . Payment was made in kind rather than in coin , and every sort of farm prod- uce was legal tender at the printing - office . Wood was welcome in any quantity ...
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... less inquiring communities . When we came among them they had lately been swept by the fires of spiritualism , which left behind a great deal of smoke and ashes where the inherited New England orthodoxy had been . . . . The old New York ...
... less inquiring communities . When we came among them they had lately been swept by the fires of spiritualism , which left behind a great deal of smoke and ashes where the inherited New England orthodoxy had been . . . . The old New York ...
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... less would have seemed to her a step backwards in what she had learned to adore : CAMP OF THE SEVENTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY , LEBANON , KENTUCKY , Sabbath , April 12 , 1863 Yesterday we received our back mail , and it was a day of ...
... less would have seemed to her a step backwards in what she had learned to adore : CAMP OF THE SEVENTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY , LEBANON , KENTUCKY , Sabbath , April 12 , 1863 Yesterday we received our back mail , and it was a day of ...
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Página 196 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 127 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 118 - That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war...
Página 43 - When we do as we say, beat you, you perhaps want to know what we will do with you. I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. We mean to treat you, as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you.
Página 231 - We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection ; we protest against its destruction as proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe ; we will support the interests of America.
Página 196 - For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.
Página 293 - If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?
Página 218 - There is a class of government positions which are not within the letter of the Civil Service statute, but which are so disconnected with the policy of an administration that the removal therefrom of present incumbents, in my opinion, should not be made during the terms for which they were appointed solely on partisan grounds and for the purpose of putting in their places those who are in political accord with the appointing power.
Página 114 - One low grave, yon trees beneath, Bears no roses, wears no wreath; Yet no heart more high and warm Ever dared the battle-storm, Never gleamed a prouder eye In the front of victory, Never foot had firmer tread On the field where hope lay dead, Than are hid within this tomb Where the untended grasses bloom, And no stone, with feigned distress, Mocks the sacred loneliness.
Página 44 - We mean to remember that you are as good as we; that there is no difference between us other than the difference of circumstances. We mean to recognize and bear in mind always that you have as good hearts in your bosoms as other people, or as we claim to have, and treat you accordingly.