 | United States - 1900 - 794 pages
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 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 554 pages
...between Charles I. of England and the people in arms against him. Mr. Lincoln in reply to this said « ' I do not profess to be posted in history. On all such...the case of Charles I. is that he lost his head.' " The pertinent retort reduced Mr. Hunter to his last rhetorical resource — a complaint that the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 558 pages
...be posted in history. On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward. All I distinetly recolleet about the case of Charles I. is that he lost his head.' " The pertinent retort reduced Mr. Hunter to his last rhetorical resouree — a complaint that the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 568 pages
...be posted in history. On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward. All I distinetly recolleet about the case of Charles I. is that he lost his head.' " The pertinent retort reduced Mr. Hunter to his last rhetorical resouree — a complaint that the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...of Charles I. and his subjects. ' I do not profess to be posted in history,' replied Mr. Lincoln. ' On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward....the case of Charles I. is that he lost his head.' After that, Charles disappeared from the negociations. Had the case of the South been in the hands... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 582 pages
...of Charles I. and his subjects. ' I do not profess to be posted in history,' replied Mr. Lincoln. ' On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward....the case of Charles I. is that he lost his head.' After that, Charles disappeared from the negociations. Had the case of the South been in the hands... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...in arms against him." Mr. Lincoln could not lose such an opportunity! "I do not profess," he said, "to be posted in history. On all such matters I will...the case of Charles I. is, that he lost his head/" Then silence fell for a time upon Mr. Hunter. Across the wide chasm of the main question the gentlemen... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1897 - 874 pages
...be posted in history. On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward. All I distinctly remember about the case of Charles I. is that he lost his head." That settled Mr. Hunter and his historic citations. The failure of the Confederates to secure an armistice... | |
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I do not profess to be posted in history. On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward. All I distinctly recollect about the case of Charles I, is, that he lost his head in the end. 
