Fifty Years a Journalist

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Doubleday, Page, 1921 - 371页
 

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第2页 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
第23页 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
第104页 - I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man ; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
第3页 - There shall be formed in the said Territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same, shall become fixed and established as follows...
第290页 - As this situation is exceedingly strained and the relations between the plenipotentiaries critical to a degree, immediate action is necessary. Can you not take the initiative by presenting these terms at once to him ? Your success in the matter will make the entire civilized world your debtor.
第31页 - So, boys, a final bumper, While we all in chorus chant — " For next President we nominate Our own Ulysses Grant. " And if asked what state he hails from, This our sole reply shall be, " From near Appomattox Court-house, With its famous apple-tree. " For 'twas there, to our Ulysses, That Lee gave up the fight — Now, boys, "To Grant for President, And God defend the right.
第326页 - The first attack took place at 10.30 on the night of June 22. What gives it peculiar and disturbing significance is that our ships were set upon at* a point well this side of the rendezvous, and in that part of the Atlantic presumably free from submarines. The attack was made in force, although the night made impossible any exact count of the U-boats gathered for what they deemed a slaughter.
第185页 - L'Ouverture, who will become the pathfinder of his country, and, with his sword, will at the head of his people, lead them to freedom and equality. He will form a republican government whose cornerstone will be religion, morality, education, and temperance, acknowledging the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, while the ten commandments and the golden rule shall be the rule of life and conduct in the great republic of redeemed Africa.
第14页 - A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.
第246页 - He said that while it was a rather serious business, and one which he must take up with his confreres, particularly the Minister of Telegraphs, he sincerely favored my views. He invited me to breakfast in the palace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There I met two or three of the other ministers. I told them that our people must be absolutely free, that there must be no attempt to influence them. While, in order to be useful, the representative of The Associated Press accredited to any capital...

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