"Warrington" Pen-portraits: A Collection of Personal and Political Reminiscences from 1848 to 1876, from the Writings of William S. Robinson. With Memoir, and Extracts from Diary and Letters Never Before PublishedWilliam Stevens Robinson |
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... speech was infinitely worse . Mr. Maffit may be a very sincere man ; but his sermon gives no evi- dence of it . " The Washington correspondence was soon discontinued ; and Mr. Robinson returned to Lowell to write for Clay and the unity ...
... speech was infinitely worse . Mr. Maffit may be a very sincere man ; but his sermon gives no evi- dence of it . " The Washington correspondence was soon discontinued ; and Mr. Robinson returned to Lowell to write for Clay and the unity ...
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... speech as thoroughly antislavery , to the full doctrine of which he desired the Whigs of Massachusetts to pledge themselves . Mr. Phillips offered some minority resolutions . Daniel Webster was brought in to talk them down ; and few ...
... speech as thoroughly antislavery , to the full doctrine of which he desired the Whigs of Massachusetts to pledge themselves . Mr. Phillips offered some minority resolutions . Daniel Webster was brought in to talk them down ; and few ...
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... speech , and a free world , " Martin Van Buren was nominated for President , and C. F. Adams for Vice - President . On the morning of this convention , ten thousand people were assembled in the park at Buffalo ; and at nine o'clock ...
... speech , and a free world , " Martin Van Buren was nominated for President , and C. F. Adams for Vice - President . On the morning of this convention , ten thousand people were assembled in the park at Buffalo ; and at nine o'clock ...
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... speech of that date ; and , the next July , Presi- dent Taylor died . His election to the presidency seems to have done no great harm , and unconsciously to have been the means of great good , since it led to the formation of the Free ...
... speech of that date ; and , the next July , Presi- dent Taylor died . His election to the presidency seems to have done no great harm , and unconsciously to have been the means of great good , since it led to the formation of the Free ...
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... speech in the legislature upon the bill to amend the free - ballot law . If he had continued in the line of speech - making , life might have been made easier to him ; but he had a contempt for " specchifying " and speech - makers , and ...
... speech in the legislature upon the bill to amend the free - ballot law . If he had continued in the line of speech - making , life might have been made easier to him ; but he had a contempt for " specchifying " and speech - makers , and ...
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Page 161 - Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
Page 171 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 579 - The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them 'glittering generalities.
Page 321 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 320 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 580 - These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect — the supplanting the principles of free government, and restoring those of classification, caste, and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned heads plotting against the people. They are the vanguard, the miners and sappers of returning despotism.
Page 580 - This is a world of compensations ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 565 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 224 - In vain we tune our formal songs ; In vain we strive to rise ; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies.
Page 162 - The world which lasts when I am dead; Which never was the friend of one, Nor promised love it could not give, But lit for all its generous sun, And lived itself, and made us live.