Full Text Search Details
...re is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get th... ...re is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau, to run Douglas Republican for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get th... ...ze the whole country—there would be no more slavery agitation in or out of Congress, and the vexed question would be left entirely to the people of th... ...ong time before she may be so. We all know how fierce the agitation was in Congress last winter, and what a narrow escape Kansas had from being admitt... ...e angry de- bates which took place at Washington during the last season of Congress lead you to suppose that the slavery agitation was settled? An ele... ...50 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government... ...d send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European inter...

Full Text Search Details
...ady. Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Rail- way Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables ... ...t imag- ine. Was it to nominate some high official—a governor or member of Congress? It was not improbable, so agitated was the multitude before them.... ...ed in seven days. It was in 1862 that, in spite of the Southern Members of Congress, who wished a more southerly route, it was de- cided to lay the ro... ...redoubled their efforts, and resisted, by words at least, the authority of Congress. Elder Hitch, as is seen, was trying to make pros- elytes on the v... ...tions. “And this,” added Elder William Hitch, “this is why the jealousy of Congress has been aroused against us! Why have the soldiers of the Union in...

Full Text Search Details
...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...s the gayest and most admired of En- glishwomen: and had a little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and Engl... ...were her sphere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There wa... ... hear him cry); sometimes she found the brilliant dandy diplomatist of the Congress of Vienna dragging about a child’s toy, or nursing the keeper’s ba...

Full Text Search Details
...rget the library—on some shelves, a score or two of volumes of the Acts of Congress, and a bulky Digest of the Revenue laws. A tin pipe ascends throug... ... and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with t...

Full Text Search Details
...at news does the Judge bring us from the Legislature? It’s not likely that Congress has done much this session; or maybe the French haven’t fit any mo... ... as it pay I got? Sure did I, and in good solid crowns; the divil a bit of continental could they muster among them all, for love nor money. Och! the ...

Full Text Search Details
...ed, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honour. The least fracture now will be like ... ...treet, town, and county do on the smaller ones; distinctions too limited for continental minds. Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this provinc... ... most powerful of all arguments, is, that noth ing but independence, i.e. a continental form of gov ernment, can keep the peace of the continent and... ...y. The colonies have manifested such a spirit of good order and obedience to continental government, as is sufficient to make every reasonable person ... ...ir business wholly domestic, and subject to the authority of a Continen tal Congress. Let each colony be divided into six, eight, or ten, convenient ... ...onvenient districts, each district to send a proper num ber of delegates to Congress, so that each colony send at least thirty. The whole number in C... ...end at least thirty. The whole number in Congress will be at least 390. Each Congress to sit and to choose a presi dent by the following method. When... ... taken from the whole thirteen colo nies by lot, after which, let the whole Congress choose (by ballot) a president from out of the delegates of that... ...erned and the governors, that is, between the Congress and the people. let a CONTINENTAL CONFER ENCE be held, in the following manner, and for the fo...

Full Text Search Details
...tre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, in their HUCKLEBERRY FINN 97 sublime S... ... AND EDMUND KEAN THE ELDER! Of the London and Continental Theatres, In their Thrilling Tragedy o... ...a baths if it ain’t on the sea?” “Looky here,” I says; “did you ever see any Congress wa ter?” “Yes.” “Well, did you have to go to Congress to get it... ...ea bath.” “How does he get it, then?” “Gets it the way people down here gets Congress water — in barrels. There in the palace at Sheffield they’ve got...

Full Text Search Details
...e of expenditure prevalent, not only amongst the correspond- ing bodies of continental nations, but even amongst the poorer sections of our own nobili... ...ter the fashion of Louis Qua- torze, or our Charles II., and so many other continental princes. There were living witnesses (more than one) of his abe... ...olics, by an association that arrogated to itself the style and title of a congress. No man could suppose that a designation so ominously significant ... ...r- eigner ever sees at home will at least be always within reach, from the continental practice of using the bed room for the sitting room. But in Eng...

Full Text Search Details
...ritish Empire and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised, Congress and Parliament were usu- ally regarded as antique, curious gatheri... ...was ready, and so were the aeroplanes. We expected a little trouble in the continental cities, and in America. But things are very quiet in America. T...

Full Text Search Details
...s where their presence was supposed to be inimical to the interests of the Continental Policy. The young man, who was taking the tedium of the early m... ...that he had received an appointment as attache to a plenipotentiary at the Congress of Laybach, he wished to take advantage of the opportunity to make... ...ing of which, as yet, you have not thought at all.” “What is it?” “Why—the Congress is over.” “Well,” she said, “and ought you to have been at the Con...

Full Text Search Details
...ved, the editor is furthermore indebted to the Librarian of the Library of Congress; to Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co., D. Appleton & Co., Macmillan ... ..., in 1846, he was elected 16 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One to Congress. In a clever speech in the House of Represen- tatives he denounced... ...is country in solving the great problem. Nor had his career as a member of Congress in any sense been such as to gratify his ambition. Indeed, if he e... ...lavery battle in the popular assembly, or in the press, or in the halls of Congress, far surpassed him in prestige, and compared with whom he was stil... ... a judge on the supreme bench of Illinois, three times a Representative in Congress, and a Senator of the United States when only thirty-nine years ol... ...ions should also be sought from Russia and Great Brit- ain, and a vigorous continental spirit of independence against European intervention be aroused...

Full Text Search Details
...f Massachusetts proposed that del egates from every colony should meet in Congress. Accord ingly nine colonies, both Northern and Southern, sent del... ...ing was yet to be done before England and America could come to blows. The Congress stated the rights and griev ances of the colonists. They sent a h... ...re close at hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and pr... ...hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and proposed such ... ...h measures as they thought most conducive to the public good. A Provincial Congress was likewise chosen in Massachusetts. They exhorted the people to ... ...Grandfather found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed o... ...found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed of delegates ... ...reverend appendage to a cleri cal skull. There, too, were officers of the Continental army, who required their hair to be pomatumed and plastered, so...

Full Text Search Details
... American Notes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, pl... ... and longed for the Forest and the Prairie. I asked him what he thought of Congress? He an swered, with a smile, that it wanted dignity, in an Indian... ...ish them. The number of cadets being about equal to that of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member ... ...y year, the tone of public feeling must sink lower down; year by year, the Congress and the Senate must become of less account before all decent men; ...

Full Text Search Details
... party which he had adopted. He had been, for a biennial term, a member of Congress, after winning some distinction in the legisla ture of his native... ... does not even sit his horse like an Englishman, but in that absurd, stiff continental way, as if a poker should get on horseback. Neither has he an E... ...nted by the President, by and with the advice of the Senate, to one of the Continental missions, usually esteemed an object of considerable ambition t...

Full Text Search Details
...base success was written on his brow. He was then in his ill days; but I can imagine him in Congress with his mouth full of bombast and sawder. As we ... ...ll for ever tempers his austerities. Any one who has travelled westward by the great trans- continental railroad of America must remember the joy with...

Full Text Search Details
...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...s the gayest and most admired of En- glishwomen: and had a little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and Engl... ...were her sphere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There wa... ... hear him cry); sometimes she found the brilliant dandy diplomatist of the Congress of Vienna dragging about a child’s toy, or nursing the keeper’s ba... ...which she requested him to mind his book, and said she was going to take a Continental tour, during which she would have the plea- sure of writing to ... ... always have a lawsuit, and very simple English folks, who fancy they see “Continental society” at these houses, put down their money, or ate their me...

Full Text Search Details
...e divans, “this is a library which would do honour to more than one of the continental palaces, and I am absolutely astounded when I consider that it ... ...nding the bottom. There, too, Lieutenant Parker, of the American frig- ate Congress, could not touch the bottom with 15,140 fathoms. Captain Nemo inte...

Full Text Search Details
...me. It is my yearning and my thirst. ‘Are you, sir, aware of any member of Congress in England, who would undertake to pay my expenses to that country... ... sir, that is the 491 Charles Dickens Honourable Elijah Pogram, Member of Congress; one of the mas- ter-minds of our country, sir. There is a brow, s... ...ound up. ‘Mr Pogram,’ said the introducer, ‘is a public servant, sir. When Congress is recessed, he makes himself acquainted with those free United St... ...m (he voted for Pogram) had thun- dered the last sentence from his seat in Congress, at the head of an unpopular President. It told brilliantly; for t... ...ou. And may it, My friends, be written on My tomb, “He was a member of the Congress of our common country, and was ac-Tive in his trust.”’ ‘The Com-mi... ...s I tell my friend, the beehive, the beehive. You projected a short little continental trip, my dear friend, of course?’ Jonas maintained a dogged sil...

Full Text Search Details
...uave breeches and a fez, a few narghilehs and a sprinkling of the ordinary continental shopboys. – In the evening I tried one more walk in Syra with A... ...e and America – practically the whole scientific world – at the Electrical Congress in Paris in the years 1882 and 1884. An important paper of thirty ...

Full Text Search Details
...formances in it, they seem to regard it as the culminating flower of their continental Republic—as though the Old World had never heard of shoddy. But... ...aracteristically Anglo-Saxon method of appointing its rep- resentatives in Congress. It is not only in political institu- tions that the method may be... ...each State may or may not be to the American heart. But the possibility of Congress delegating the power to appoint additional Senators to certain non...