My Diary in America in the Midst of War, Volumul 2Tinsley brothers, 1865 |
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Pagina 48
... clerk looking at him over the top of the desk to see if he is young , and if he looks accomplished . The " Excelsior " music for violin , flute , or cornet is advertised , including those favourite airs , " The Dingle Schottisch , " 66 ...
... clerk looking at him over the top of the desk to see if he is young , and if he looks accomplished . The " Excelsior " music for violin , flute , or cornet is advertised , including those favourite airs , " The Dingle Schottisch , " 66 ...
Pagina 62
... clerk in the Custom House , nor a lighthouse - keeper drew his pay without being contemplated by some candidate for office , muttering : " Next year , or the year after next , I shall trouser the dollars of 62 AMERICA IN THE MIDST OF WAR .
... clerk in the Custom House , nor a lighthouse - keeper drew his pay without being contemplated by some candidate for office , muttering : " Next year , or the year after next , I shall trouser the dollars of 62 AMERICA IN THE MIDST OF WAR .
Pagina 63
... clerks would intrigue for office for the sake of the salary , and while they were in office take bribes unblushingly , or steal right and left because they knew that at the end of four years they would be turned out of office without ...
... clerks would intrigue for office for the sake of the salary , and while they were in office take bribes unblushingly , or steal right and left because they knew that at the end of four years they would be turned out of office without ...
Pagina 66
... clerk opens them before he deposits them in the receptive aperture . There is an agent , or inspector , of each ... clerks were Black Republicans . They voted for Mr. Lincoln in November . was a Democrat and an Irishman . But the head ...
... clerk opens them before he deposits them in the receptive aperture . There is an agent , or inspector , of each ... clerks were Black Republicans . They voted for Mr. Lincoln in November . was a Democrat and an Irishman . But the head ...
Pagina 75
... boredom . At Willard's only there was to be heard the hum of men , the cries of news - boys , the ringing of bells , the chattering of negro waiters , the sharp voice of the hotel clerk , and the clinking of WASHINGTON . 75.
... boredom . At Willard's only there was to be heard the hum of men , the cries of news - boys , the ringing of bells , the chattering of negro waiters , the sharp voice of the hotel clerk , and the clinking of WASHINGTON . 75.
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Abraham Lincoln admirable advertisements American ladies army Artemus Ward asked barouche beautiful bonnets Boston British Broadway called Capitol CAPTAIN cents clerk Congress Copperhead DIARY IN AMERICA dollars dress drink England English eyes Federal Fernando Wood fishball gentleman George Francis Train girl gold grand hair hall hand Hannibal Hamlin Harlem Harlem River head hear heard honour House hundred Irish kind least Les côtelettes Lincoln look manner means ment mind morning negro never newspaper night North once parlour passed peace person police political President pretty prisoners railway remarked Republic of Jones Saratoga Saratoga Springs Secesh Senator shoddy Sing-Sing soldiers South spring story Street table d'hôte talk things thousand tion told Union United Washington wear Willard's woman women wonder Yankee York young lady
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Pagina 16 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Pagina 381 - Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Pagina 247 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Pagina 122 - THEY grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee, Their graves are severed far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the...
Pagina 14 - Taint your eppyletts an' feathers Make the thing a grain more right; 'Taint afollerin' your bell-wethers Will excuse ye in His sight; Ef you take a sword an...
Pagina 395 - Federal habiliments every wolf, and panther, and tiger, and catamount, and bear in the mountains of America ; every crocodile in the swamps of Florida and South Carolina ; every negro in the Southern Confederacy ; and every devil in Hell and Pandemonium. . . . This war, I say to you, must be pursued with a vim and a vengeance, until the rebellion is put down, if it exterminates from God's green earth every man, woman, and child south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Pagina 395 - We can whip the Southern Confederacy ; we can take in England and France ; and I want to carry it on till we whip out all creation.' Every point in this discourse told immensely, and it would be difficult to determine whether the loudest cheers were elicited by the allusion to the hogs in the Sea of Galilee, or the aspiration of
Pagina 286 - Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted, are Teachers' Seminaries, or Normal Schools. We have never been able to comprehend how it should happen, that a statuary, who has only to carve the block of marble, or mould the mass of bronze, into the forms of material beauty, should find years of patient study...
Pagina 161 - But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland! Thou wilt not crook to his control, Maryland! Better the fire upon thee roll, Better the shot, the blade, the bowl, Than crucifixion of the soul, Maryland, my Maryland! I hear the distant thunder hum, Maryland! The Old Line's bugle, fife, and drum, Maryland ! She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb; Huzza!
Pagina 328 - Times for the last twelve months — with what happy success to the forecast and honesty of that paper we all know. It was said of him that ' he was a just man and a righteous man, and he walked uprightly before the world, but when he was not before the world his walk was slantindicular .' " See Thorold Rogers's Collection of the " Speeches of John Bright,