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...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ...berty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other States alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that ... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ...N. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President o... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the United States], or to listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continu... ...nected with some degree of it? If so, we must discard all government. This Capitol is built at the public expense, for the public benefit; but does an... ...ict of Columbia, in connection with which, in view from the windows of the Capitol, a sort of negro livery-stable, where droves of negroes were collec...

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...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ... write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Po... ...afforded, it would not have voted for Jefferson Davis for President of the United 15 U. S. Grant States, over Mr. Lincoln, or any other representativ... ...uring the night of the 23d he crossed over and bivouacked not far from the Capitol. Promptly at ten o’clock on the morning of the 24th, his troops com... ...t was varied and grand: nearly all day for two suc- cessive days, from the Capitol to the T reasury Building, could be seen a mass of orderly soldiers...

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...te error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Cler- gymen, judges, statesmen,—the wisest, calmest, holiest per- sons of their day stood in the... ...rt for a purpose, and of lending your strength be it great or small—to the united struggle of mankind. This is suc- cess,—all the success that anybody... ... specimens of the breed, but of all its forefathers and foremothers, whose united excellences and oddities were squeezed into its little body. Its mot... ...ountry newspaper. He had subsequently travelled New England and the Middle States, as a peddler, in the employment of a Connecticut manufac- tory of c... ...society is now suffering for. I doubt whether even our public edifices—our capitols, state-houses, court- houses, city-hall, and churches,—ought to be... ...t we lost,—are essential to the soul’s development. In some cases, the two states come almost simultaneously, and mingle the sadness and the rapture i... ...state in town and country, his railroad, bank, and in- surance shares, his United States stock,—his wealth, in short, however invested, now in possess...

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...driv’n along, And thro’ the clouds pursued the scatt’ring throng: Now, all united in a goodly team, They skim the ground, and seek the quiet stream. A... ...d ready to receive The golden burthen, and their friends relieve; All with united force, combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive: Wit... ...ding crown Now threats a fall, and throws the leafy honors down. T o their united force it yields, tho’ late, And mourns with mortal groans th’ approa... ...rist the Julian name! Another comes, who shall in triumph ride, And to the Capitol his chariot guide, From conquer’d Corinth, rich with Grecian spoils... ...c bands affright; Shall kill the Gaulish king in single fight; Then to the Capitol in triumph move, And the third spoils shall grace Feretrian Jove.” ... ...n saw, and turn’d his ships to shore. ‘T was on a solemn day: th’ Arcadian states, The king and prince, without the city gates, Then paid their off’ri... ...f my verse can give Immortal life, your fame shall ever live, Fix’d as the Capitol’s foundation lies, And spread, where’er the Roman eagle flies! The ... ...relied; Who promis’d, who procur’d, the Spartan bride? When all th’ united states of Greece combin’d, T o purge the world of the perfidious kind, Then...

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...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...l; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun, Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike ... ...Pontific crown’d, With scarlet hats wide-waving circled round, Rome in her Capitol saw Querno sit, 295 Throned on seven hills, the Antichrist of wit. ... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ...ncient geese:’ relates to the well-known story of the geese that saved the Capitol; of which Virgil, Aen. VIII. ‘Atque hic auratis volitans argenteus ... ...d, as a trifle that no way altered the relationship.—P . 295 ‘Rome in her Capitol saw Querno sit:’ Camillo Querno was of Apulia, who, hearing the gre... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin...

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.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...gth, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You de- mand States-General?” asked Monseigneur with an air of mi- natory surprise.—”Yes... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...he argued not, upbraided not, with the Inexorable; but, like Caesar in the Capitol, wrapped her mantle, as it beseems Queens and Sons of Adam to do. B... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

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... 5 to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such advent... ...fer of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon ei ther in actu... ... tattered papers, and miscellaneous shreds of all conceivable sub stances, “united in a common element of dust.” Books lay on tables, and below table... ...e of Science, and cackle, like true Old Roman geese and goslings round their Capitol, on any alarm, or on none; nay who often, as illu minated Scepti... ...mstances, might be, followed Teufelsdr¨ ockh, through the various successive states and stages of Growth, Entanglement, Unbelief, and almost Reprobati...

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...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...g waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, a... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...he Ca- cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the ga... ...cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the garb of h... ...Ben Franklin; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrep... .... Need I describe the road from Boulogne to Paris? or need I describe that Capitol itself? Suffice it to say, that we made our appearance there, at “M...

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... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... .... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has s... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ...rice,—is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction o... ... the windows, and the gnomes and vices also. By all the vir- tues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess a... ... though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our banquet. A man who stands united with his thought conceives magnificently of himself. He is conscious... ...so. Thou shalt lie close hid with nature, and canst not be afforded to the Capitol or the Exchange. The world is full of renunciations and appren- tic...

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...fensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States— that is to say, in Appallachia—a well-furnished apartment. I... ... to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed in the United States— that is to say, in Appallachia—a well-furnished apartment. Its most... ...New Y ork! or if this be too vast a contemplation, regard for a moment the Capitol at W ashington, D. C.!”—and the good little medical man went on to ... ...odi- gious. The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states, with some fifteen or twenty others, in the most odious and insuppor...

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...ell divest himself at once of all hope of being acclaimed President of the United States, and leaving be- hind him a statue, in the worst possible sty... ...est himself at once of all hope of being acclaimed President of the United States, and leaving be- hind him a statue, in the worst possible style of a... ...ng be- hind him a statue, in the worst possible style of art, to adorn the Capitol at Washington. Here he was, chained to a dead Englishman doubled up... ...nds. Indeed I may say there is hardly a better place of concealment in the United Kingdom. I de- termined to pass a week in the Sea-Wood of Graden Eas... ...I recall our old lovingkindnesses and the deep honesty and affection which united us, and my present loss seems but a trifle in comparison. We may hav...

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... this respect? Her story-tellers in prose lie open to easy accusation. Her Capitoli in verse go to incredible lengths; and the astonish- ing success o... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...rned to Lerne, went presently, before they did either eat or drink, to the Capitol, and there before their king, called Picrochole, the third of that ... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome... ...aging of some formidable war, or the notable change and mutation of potent states and kingdoms; but, in conclusion, the world laugheth at the capricio... ...Carmentalis, since named Scelerata, formerly situ- ated at the foot of the Capitol, between the Tarpeian rock and the Tiber, marched out against the V...

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...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...as always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority. Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this natu... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ut self-commendation, a fitness in it. Say things prospered, and they were united. She, the child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. There was a ... ...age in the whole of his Consularity. The day came, and the She-Wolf in the Capitol might have snarled with envy to see how the Island Savages contrive...

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...nsive seacoast defense system. On March 17, 1861, two weeks after the necessary two-thirds of Congress had sent the proposed 13th Amendment to the States for ratification and a week after the Confederate States of America approved emitting bills of credit directly, Gordon Radcliff attended a family reunion and dinner. Originally Gordon had planned to skip the reunion...