Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volum 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 |
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Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volum 1 John Murray Forbes Visualització completa - 1899 |
Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volum 1 John Murray Forbes Visualització completa - 1900 |
Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volum 1 John Murray Forbes Visualització completa - 1900 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 349 - The great objects of humanity are best attained, when conformed to His laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our Confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone which was rejected by the first builders, " is become the chief stone of the corner
Pàgina xii - How little this man suspects, with his sympathy for men and his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is uot likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
Pàgina xii - I said never was such force, good meaning, good sense, good action, combined with such domestic lovely behaviour, such modesty and persistent preference for others. Wherever he moved he was the benefactor.
Pàgina 266 - It is criminal weakness to intrust such important responsibilities as those resting on the surgeon-general to a selfsatisfied, supercilious, bigoted block-head, merely because he is the oldest of the old mess-room doctors of the frontier-guard of the country. He knows nothing, and does nothing, and is capable of knowing nothing and doing nothing but quibble about matters of form and precedent...
Pàgina 308 - fugitive slaves ' has been or is being Organized in this department. There is, however, a fine regiment of persons whose late masters are 'fugitive rebels,' — men who everywhere fly before the appearance of the national flag, leaving their servants behind them to shift as best they can for themselves. So far, indeed, are the loyal persons composing this regiment from seeking to avoid the presence of their late owners, that they are now, one and all, working with remarkable industry to place themselves...
Pàgina 10 - He attends to every thing, — writes letters, raises money (liberally contributing himself) , sends messages to Washington to direct and organize congressional opinion, makes or persuades editors to write leading articles to enforce his views, hunts up members of Congress in vacation-time, dines them at the club, and sends them back full of practical suggestions, which re-appear in bills and resolves the month after.
Pàgina 203 - We framed the constitution, for seventy years moulded the policy of the government, and placed our own men, or ' northern men with southern principles,
Pàgina 157 - ... Mason-Dixon line. In the North, Lincoln ran against the field. His opponents sometimes combined as in New Jersey and New York, but in most states there were four tickets. The Republicans emphasized the slavery question, especially appealing to the labor vote. JM Forbes had written in December, 1856 : " All other influences sink into insignificance compared with that brought to bear for two years past, and especially during the past four months, from the stump and by the tremendous machinery of...
Pàgina 308 - To the first question, therefore I reply : that no regiment of fugitive slaves has been or is being organized in this Department. There is, however, a fine regiment of loyal persons whose late masters are fugitive rebels...
Pàgina xii - Whereever he moved he was the benefactor. It is of course that he should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well, but he was the best talker, also, in the company...