The Life and Times of C. G. MemmingerEverett Waddey Company, 1893 - 604 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 84 筆
第 17 頁
... never that he did so with the boasting spirit of the so - called " self - made " man , nor was it with the mean evasion that the vain person alone evidences , but always with a manly frankness and a great- ful sense of a kindness ...
... never that he did so with the boasting spirit of the so - called " self - made " man , nor was it with the mean evasion that the vain person alone evidences , but always with a manly frankness and a great- ful sense of a kindness ...
第 24 頁
... never knew him charged with an indiscretion that would necessitate an apology to a class - mate or a rebuke from a Professor . " I soon learned not only to like him , but to have for the ' Charleston boy , ' as we called him , a great ...
... never knew him charged with an indiscretion that would necessitate an apology to a class - mate or a rebuke from a Professor . " I soon learned not only to like him , but to have for the ' Charleston boy , ' as we called him , a great ...
第 25 頁
... never known surpassed the fac- ulty of concentration . I have known him when surrounded by a troup of boisterous college boys to continue his studies amid every kind of interruption . " I extract from a letter written by the Hon . HIS ...
... never known surpassed the fac- ulty of concentration . I have known him when surrounded by a troup of boisterous college boys to continue his studies amid every kind of interruption . " I extract from a letter written by the Hon . HIS ...
第 26 頁
... never reached a place of note , or became at all distinguished , who were regarded in their college days as being more talented than Memminger ; but none who were superior to him in that painstaking labor and thorough analysis so essen ...
... never reached a place of note , or became at all distinguished , who were regarded in their college days as being more talented than Memminger ; but none who were superior to him in that painstaking labor and thorough analysis so essen ...
第 29 頁
... never known surpassed the ability to state a proposition and lay a case before a judge or a jury as clearly as it possibly could be done . There was nothing superfluous , no redundant expression ; but stripped of all extraneous matters ...
... never known surpassed the ability to state a proposition and lay a case before a judge or a jury as clearly as it possibly could be done . There was nothing superfluous , no redundant expression ; but stripped of all extraneous matters ...
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第 47 頁 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
第 255 頁 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
第 542 頁 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest ; but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind ; and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life.
第 294 頁 - Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
第 235 頁 - ... so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
第 294 頁 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. : New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATES...
第 542 頁 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
第 235 頁 - Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
第 224 頁 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us, in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the constitution of the United States of America...
第 288 頁 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.