Reminiscences of Distinguished MenPublished for the author., 1878 - 295 頁 |
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... gave way . I spent one summer at the White Sulphur Springs , receiving but little benefit ; the next in Culpepper among my relatives ; and in October , 1824 , I joined a party of three hundred persons who chartered a boat at Alexandria ...
... gave way . I spent one summer at the White Sulphur Springs , receiving but little benefit ; the next in Culpepper among my relatives ; and in October , 1824 , I joined a party of three hundred persons who chartered a boat at Alexandria ...
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... gave of himself . He was very silent except when intoxicated , and then he was harsh in his language and forbidding in his appearance . It was on such occasions only that anything could be learned of his previous life . He was an ...
... gave of himself . He was very silent except when intoxicated , and then he was harsh in his language and forbidding in his appearance . It was on such occasions only that anything could be learned of his previous life . He was an ...
第 24 頁
... his subjects loved him . He said to me every body at home governed him — wife , overseer and servants . He spoke freely of men and things , of his enemies with bit- terness . He gave me the history of his military 24 AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
... his subjects loved him . He said to me every body at home governed him — wife , overseer and servants . He spoke freely of men and things , of his enemies with bit- terness . He gave me the history of his military 24 AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
第 25 頁
William Banks Slaughter. terness . He gave me the history of his military life , of the privations , hardships , and the dangers to which he had been exposed , and of the cruel manner in which political demagogues had misrepresented his ...
William Banks Slaughter. terness . He gave me the history of his military life , of the privations , hardships , and the dangers to which he had been exposed , and of the cruel manner in which political demagogues had misrepresented his ...
第 32 頁
... gave no wealth , wealth no luxury , luxury no love of ease , for the gratification of which energy foregoes her exertions , science closes her volumes , all aspirations slum- ber , a dreamy inactivity ensues , which deprives the limb of ...
... gave no wealth , wealth no luxury , luxury no love of ease , for the gratification of which energy foregoes her exertions , science closes her volumes , all aspirations slum- ber , a dreamy inactivity ensues , which deprives the limb of ...
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第 282 頁 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
第 283 頁 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
第 88 頁 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
第 263 頁 - Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
第 256 頁 - Sir, the eloquence of Mr. Calhoun, or the manner of his exhibition of his sentiments in public bodies, was part of his intellectual character. It grew out of the qualities of his mind. It was plain, strong, terse, condensed, concise ; sometimes impassioned, — still always severe. Rejecting ornament, not often seeking far for illustration, his power consisted in the plainness of his propositions, in the closeness of his logic, and in the earnestness and energy of his manner.
第 87 頁 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.
第 121 頁 - Advert, sir, to the duties of a judge. He has to pass between the government and the man whom that government is prosecuting; between the most powerful individual in the community and the poorest and most unpopular. It is of the last importance that, in the exercise of these duties, he should observe the utmost fairness. Need I press the necessity of this ? Does not every man feel that his own personal security and the security of his property...
第 137 頁 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter...
第 290 頁 - We wish that whosoever, in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished, where the first great battle of the revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude ami importance of that event, to every class and every age.
第 257 頁 - He has lived long enough, he has done enough, and he has done it so well, so successfully, so honorably, as to connect himself for all time with the records of his country.