An Old-fashioned Senator: A Story-biography of John Sharp WilliamsFrederick A. Stokes Company, 1925 - 204 pages |
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Page 203 - Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
Page 146 - ... other, while the enemy has to go all around, he would win that war. I tell you, furthermore, that the Italian barrier cannot be protected if there are enough German people put in, and when once it is broken France will be attacked upon the south — unfortified and undefended — on the Italian side. I tell you, moreover, that if Germany does win that fight upon the Continent of Europe — with Belgium already a vassal State, Holland to become one, France likewise, by defeat — with all their...
Page 103 - And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use.
Page 49 - That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote...
Page 112 - The ideal gentleman was always honest ; spoke the truth ; faced his enemy; fought him if necessary; never quarreled with him nor talked about him; rode well; shot well; used chaste and correct English; insulted no man — bore no insult from any; was studiously kind to his inferiors, especially to his slaves; cordially hospitable to his equals ; courteous to his superiors, if he acknowledged any ; he scorned a demagogue, but loved his people, and held it mean to prefer any class or individual interest,...
Page 146 - ... full power of the people when the emergency comes than it is to keep them weighted down for 20 years in order to do one year's fighting. As a rule, people do one year's fighting out of each 20 years of their actual existence. We have done less, of course. Which would you rather do — fight Prussia now, with France and England and Russia to help you, or fight her later, when she is foot-loose, by ourselves? You have got to do one or the other. A whole lot of people tell me that the nations of...
Page 104 - Williams, with his wild scalplocks and lovelocks flowing; with his blown, disheveled, extemporaneous, neglected, surprised appearance; with his strange second-hand clothes of the mound-building period, his picturesque gaiters, his mysterious and melancholy eyes, and his general air of incognito.
Page 39 - ... Press Bureau, to shove him off. Presently one of these fiends in human form came melodramatically to grief. Williams challenged him, and "according to Prussian ethics," named the weapons — pistols. A shock, indeed! The monster expected sabers, at which he was diabolically expert, but Williams didn't intend "to go home with his face all slashed, and have folks jeer at him for getting his jaw cut on a beer glass.
Page xii - Historians will search otherwhere for certain facts. Here they will find only the lover of his family, the lover of his country, the lover of books and flowers, and the lover of his fellowman.
Page 160 - ... a force; that we may in some way organize an Amphictyonic Council of the civilized nations of the world; and that we shall make the outlaw nations bring their controversies to that tribunal under all ordinary and normal circumstances.