The 13th District: A Story of a CandidateBowen-Merrill Company, 1902 - 490 pages "Illinois politics." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation |
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Page 450 - And, reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair.
Page 359 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled...
Page 268 - The ayes seem to have it, the ayes have it, and the original resolution is adopted.
Page 232 - I don't want to take up any more of your time than I have...
Page 161 - Whitlock described a political parade of the time— "the smell of saltpeter, the snorts of horses, the shouts of men, the red and white ripple of the flags that went careering by in smoke and flame"— and found in this "some strange suggestion of the war our political contests typify, in spirit and symbol at least.