Joseph H. Choate: New Englander, New Yorker, Lawyer, Ambassador |
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Page 310 - You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak Pray how did you manage to do it?
Page 190 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 296 - ... which bears still his illustrious name. It is the smallest and at the same time the greatest street in the world, because it lies at the hub of the gigantic wheel which encircles the globe under the name of the British Empire. It is all American. I have shown you why it is called Downing Street. But why, Lord Salisbury, is it called a street? I have always thought that a street was a way through from one place to some other place. This does not come within that definition. I have heard it called...
Page 130 - I think so still. To be a priest, and possibly a high priest in the Temple of Justice ; to serve at her altar and aid in her administration; to maintain and defend...
Page 135 - Court exists to be attacked and defended (that sheet anchor of our liberties and of our government), so long as the public credit and good faith of this great nation are in peril, so long as the right of property which lies at the root of all civil government is scouted and the three inalienable rights to life, to liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 363 - tis subject to pain, And sorrow, and short as a bubble ; 'Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, And care, and money, and trouble. But we'll take no care when the weather proves fair; Nor will we vex now though it rain ; We'll banish all sorrow, and sing till to-morrow, And angle, and angle again.
Page 24 - Dutch republic was then called, there was "a church without a bishop and a state without a king;" and there they might find "freedom to worship God." They had "heard that in the Low Countries was freedom of religion for all men; as also how sundry, from London and other parts of the land, had been exiled and persecuted for the same cause and were gone thither." Why might they not make that...
Page 13 - List to the name of the successful candidates. 22. Except as hereinafter provided the examination shall begin on the Monday before the last Sunday in May. The hours of attendance shall be from nine to twelve in the morning and from two to five in the afternoon.
Page 223 - I shall not undertake to cope with him by means of the same weapons, because I am not master of them. It never would have occurred to me to present either as an opening or closing argument to this great and learned Court, that if in...
Page 118 - Yes, we are all there, — from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf...
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Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power, and Greed Mark Grossman No preview available - 2003 |