EDWIN M. STANTON, "Secretary of War: "Now that the interview between Major Eckert, under his written instructions, and Mr. Stephens and party has ended, I will state confidentially, but not officially to become a matter of record, that I am convinced upon conversation with Messrs. Stephens and Hunter that their intentions are good and their desire sincere to restore peace and union. — from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
As sculptors and painters have each in turn idealized the work of his predecessor, until the composer stands before us like a Homeric god until those who knew him personally, could they return to earth, would never suspect that the grand form and noble features of the more pretentious portraits are intended to represent the short muscular figure and pock-pitted face of their old friend—so in literature evoked by the composer a similar process has gone on, with a corresponding suppression of whatever is deemed common and trivial, until he is made a being living in his own peculiar realm of gigantic ideas, above [246] and apart from the rest of mankind—a sort of intellectual Thor, dwelling in “darkness and clouds of awful state,” and making in his music mysterious revelations of things unutterable! — from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
successes and prosperities had engendered in
They were angry, they were indignant, they were exasperated, and the more so because they were more than half convinced of their impotence, while wholly conscious that they had been decoyed to their destruction, befooled and overreached by one who knew how to appeal to a greed which his own ill-won successes and prosperities had engendered in them. — from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
surroundings and pleasant homes even if
Tout lasse, tout passe, tout casse , but memory never dies; and if we in our first start in life have charming surroundings and pleasant homes, even if they only are of the simplest nature, as long as we live they are ours, and none can ever take them away from us. — from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton
short a period had elapsed is
But if they had really known anything respecting the fate of this navigator—and it must have been fresh in their memory, if we recall to mind how comparatively short a period had elapsed—is it not most likely that they would have found means, through the two interpreters to communicate it to Cartier? — from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
sick and put her elbow into
Berkley's self-assumed duty was to console his companion; a duty which he performed like an old Spanish Matadora, a woman whose business was to attend the sick, and put her elbow into the stomach of the dying to shorten their agony. — from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
such a prohibition however even if
[403] To enforce such a prohibition, however, even if practicable before, ceased to be practicable so soon as these metals were recognized and tolerated in the possession, and for the purposes of the government. — from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote
shoes and poured his excitement in
How he had pegged shoes and poured his excitement, in vivid language, into the ears of the east-side loafers in the shoe-shop! — from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton
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