This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... and carry away ten boars, ten sows, ten shoats, and ten pigs," at which he exclaimed, "Well, by golly, that is the most equally divided gang of hogs I ever'did hear of!" If there is any other gang of hogs more equally divided than the Democrats of New York are about this time, I have not heard of it. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... and carry away ten boars, ten sows, ten shoats, and ten pigs," at which he exclaimed, "Well, by golly, that is the most equally divided gang of hogs I ever'did hear of!" If there is any other gang of hogs more equally divided than the Democrats of New York are about this time, I have not heard of it. -- Speech in Congress; July 27, 1848. THE mere physical of Niagara Falls is a very small part of that world's wonder. Its power to excite reflection and emotion is its great charm. ... It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus first sought this continent -- when Christ suffered on the cross -- when Moses led Israel through the Red Sea -- nay, even when Adam first came from the hand of his Maker: then, as now, Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones fill the mounds of America have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. Contemporary with the first race of men, and older than the first man, Niagara is strong and fresh to-day as ten thousand years ago. The Mammoth and Mastodon, so long dead that fragments of their monstrous bones alone testify that they ever lived, have gazed on Niagara -- in that long, long time never still for a single moment [never dried], never froze, never slept, never rested. -- Notes for a Popular Lecture on Niagara Falls; July, 1850. I AM not an accomplished lawyer. I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful. The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done today. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which...
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VG-(bumping and wear to leather boards, a few pages are loose but present, pages are otherwise clear. ) Red leather boards with gilt tooling, gilt spine lettering with one raised band; all edge gilt; marble illustrated end papers; xvii, 117 pp. A reprint of the 1908 edition. Selected and edited, with introduction, by Temple Scott.
