From Lady Washington to Mrs. Cleveland: By Lydia L. GordonLee and Shepard, 1889 - 448 sayfa |
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Sayfa 409 - All the noble aspirations of my lamented predecessor which found expression in his life, the measures devised and suggested during his brief administration, to correct abuses and enforce economy, to advance prosperity and promote the general welfare, to insure domestic security and maintain friendly and honorable relations with the nations of the earth, will be garnered in the hearts of the people, and it will be my earnest endeavor to profit and to see that the nation shall profit by his example...
Sayfa 158 - Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health!
Sayfa 321 - Sic semper* before I fired. In jumping broke my leg. I passed all his pickets ; rode sixty miles that night with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump.
Sayfa 412 - in recognition of the friendly relations so long and so happily subsisting between Great Britain and the United States, in the trust and confidence of peace and good-will between the two countries for all the centuries to come, and especially as a mark of the profound respect entertained by the American people for the illustrious sovereign and gracious lady who sits upon the British throne.
Sayfa 80 - I have ever dreaded a doting old age ; and my health has been generally so good, and is now so good, that I dread it still. The rapid decline of my strength during the last winter has made me hope sometimes that I see land. During summer I enjoy its temperature ; but I shudder at the approach of winter, and wish I could sleep through it with the dormouse, and only wake with him in spring, if ever.
Sayfa 47 - Dignity, ease, and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Dryden instantly occurred to me: "' Mark his majestic fabric! He's a temple Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine; His soul's the deity that lodges there; Nor is the pile unworthy of the god...
Sayfa 323 - ... crime in him? If so, why can he pray the same? I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but "I must fight the course.
Sayfa 225 - In plain English, gentlemen and fellow-citizens, the word has been passed on to me from Washington to follow Black Hawk and to take you with me as soldiers. I mean to do both. There are the flatboats drawn up on the shore, and here are Uncle Sam's men drawn up behind you on the prairie.
Sayfa 142 - ... most liberal and unpretending methods; to the poor she was a benefactor; to the rich an example; to the wretched a comforter; to the prosperous an ornament: her piety went hand in hand with her benevolence, and she thanked her Creator for being permitted to do good. A being so gentle and so virtuous, slander might wound but could not dishonor. Even death, when he tore her from the arms of her husband, could but transport her to the bosom of her God.
Sayfa 305 - It was just after my election in 1860," said Mr. Lincoln, " when the news had been coming in thick and fast all day, and there had been a great