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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in...

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...raham Lincoln V olume 7 of 7 OPINION ON THE LOSS OF GENERAL R. H. MILROY’S DIVISION. October 27, 1863. In June last a division was substantially lost ... ...s Shenck and Milroy for some time before, that General Halleck thought the division was in great danger of a surprise at Winchester; that it was of no... ...rebellion as the working people. Let them beware of preju- dices, working division and hostility among themselves. The most notable feature of a dis... ...4. HON. HORACE GREELEY, New Y ork: I suppose you received my letter of the 9th. I have just re- ceived yours of the 13th, and am disappointed by it. ... ...ners, if they would consent to come on being shown my letter to you of the 9th instant. Show that and this to them, and if they will come on the term... ...s- trict, or of a county not so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such call, then the President shall immediately o... ...trict, or of any country not so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such call, then the President shall immediately o...

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... valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, fiveninths; the Ganges, less than...

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...ey of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths o... ...zen men or more, three or four wigwams scattered about the raft’s vast level space for storm quarters,—and I remember the rude ways and the tremendous... ...eam with an ease and rapid ity that were astonishing. When he had seen each division once in the daytime and once at night, his education was so near... ...l epochs are great things, but they are vague—vague. Please observe:— In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shor... ... fortified, there was no getting by it. It lay be tween the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction w... ...k T wain 276 St. Louis, June 9th 1872. Mr. W friend Charlie if i may call you so: i no you are surp...

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... executed in low relief, and set in a carved and gilded frame. The ceiling spaces between the chestnut cross-beams in the fine old roof were decorated... ...tocratic and bourgeois social elements, which had been united for a little space by the heavy weight of Napole- onic rule. After the pressure was remo... ...fter the pressure was removed, there followed that sudden revival of class divisions which did so much harm to the country. The most national of all s... ... The death of a king on the scaffold, the protracted agony of a queen, the division of the nobles’ lands, in his eyes were so many binding contracts; ... ..., like a sudden squall of bad weather, overclouded all the clear and lucid spaces of his brain in a moment; and then, after the dissipations which he ... ...gs were marked with such deliberation, that he brought them through to the 9th Thermidor with a dexterity which won respect for him on all sides. As a...

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...id not conclude it. If Kansas should sink to-day, and leave a great vacant space in the earth’s surface, this vexed question would still be among us. ... ...n, and I do not choose to suppress it now, that I have no objection to the division in the Judge’s party. He got it up himself. It was all his and the... ...I am very free to confess to Judge Douglas that I have no objection to the division; but I defy the Judge to show any evidence that I have in any way ... ...I defy the Judge to show any evidence that I have in any way promoted that division, unless he insists on being a witness himself in merely saying so.... ...y gained Harris’s election, and set the fraud again more than once. On the 9th of July, 1856, Douglas at- tempted a repetition of it upon Trumbull on ... ... Globe of that date. 36 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four On the 9th of August, Harris attempted it again upon Norton in the House of Repres... ...that most unphilosophical proposition, that two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. The Dred Scott decision covers the whole ground, an...

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...d to see three men standing to meet the whole army; but it was so narrow a space, that no more than three enemies could attack them at once, and it wa... ... a lake on one side, and a precipice on the other, and the king had hardly space to manage his horse, when all three sprang on him at once. One snatch... ... about a mile apart. There was a little more width left in the intervening space; but in this there were a number of springs of warm mineral water, sa... ...essels from getting into the strait and landing men beyond the pass, and a division of the army was sent off to guard the Hot Gates. The council at th... ...pport of Lucerne and Sempach, but only to the number of 1,300, who, on the 9th of July, took post in the woods around the little lake of Sempach. 137... ..., Returning from the bloody spot, Where God had judged the day.’ On every 9th of July subsequently, the people of the coun- try have been wont to ass... ... there was a grand cel- ebration of the rescue of the Saxon princes on the 9th of July, the four hundredth anniversary, with a great procession of for... ...ving us. M. de la Rochejaquelein alone is known to the soldiers of all the divisions. M. de Donnissan, my father-in-law, does not belong to this part ...

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...g and stirring ever and again, were tethered beasts, and then a great pale space of moonlight and the clumsy outlines of the village well. The cluster... ...in. A thorn caught at him and he disentangled himself. He crossed the open space, and the moon was like a great shield of light spread out above him. ... ...ke lamps in a mist of silvery blue. The track led him on across white open spaces of shriv- elled grass and sand, amidst trees where shadows made blac... ...k, with spasmodic massacres and indul- gences, broods over the brew. Every division is subdivided. There are two sorts of Greek church, Exarchic, Patr... ...ented itself to the writer, had been abandoned. To begin with, this second division had been labelled “Sex,” in places the heading remained, no effect... .... I admit motives are continually playing across the boundary of these two divisions, I should find it difficult to argue a case for my classification... ...? It will trample cities; it will devour nations….” White read this on the 9th of October, 1914. One crumpled evening paper at his feet proclaimed in ...

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...row (of this Cock or the other), all Appari- tions do melt and dissolve in space. The Paris Jacobins became ‘the Mother-Society, Societe- Mere;’ and h... ...des standing. And so, while some honourable Member is discussing, say, the division of a Department, Ushers announce: “His Majesty!” In person, with s... ...ings at due intervals), floods-in the living throng; covers without tumult space after space. The Ecole Militaire has galleries and overvaulting canop... ...t we see it has re- 74 The French Revolution—V olume Two lapsed: the wide space bristles and lours with mere muti- nous armed men. Brave Bouille adva... ... Saint-Cloud shall take effect. National Guard has got its orders; a First Division, as Advanced Guard, has even marched, and probably arrived. His Ma... ... or a month later determines your greater or your less right to the coming Division of the Spoil. Cazales himself, because he had occasionally spoken ... ...lties. Where- upon the Legislative must take stronger measures. So, on the 9th of November, we declare all Emigrants to be ‘sus- pect of conspiracy;’ ... ...f his generale, which begins drumming when men should go to bed. It is the 9th night of August, 1792. On the other hand, the Forty-eight Sections corr...

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... Dec. 8, 1858. H. D. SHARPE, Esq. DEAR SIR:—Y our very kind letter of Nov. 9th was duly re- ceived. I do not know that you expected or desired an an- ... ...tly so. In each of the latter, it is obvious that a more equitable mode of division than the above might be adopted; but as error is infi- nitely vari... ...s. This charge, in this form, was made by Judge Douglas on, I believe, the 9th of July, 1858, in Chicago, in my hearing. On the next evening, I made s... ...it. If that be true I wish you then to note the next fact: that within the space of five years Senator Douglas, in the argu- ment of this question, ha... ...just as well, and even better than we do now”? It is this: Does the proper division of local from Federal au- thority, or anything in the Constitution... ...cal impropriety and wilful perjury, if, in their understanding, any proper division between local and Federal. authority, or anything in the Constitut... ...w Haven for years. The Palladium editorially says: “We give up most of our space to-day to a very full report of the eloquent speech of the Hon. Abrah... ... B. FRY. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, August 15, 1860. MY DEAR SIR:—Yours of the 9th, inclosing the letter of HON. John Minor Botts, was duly received. The ... ...wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon...

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...the Seventeenth, busy under howling Galleries; Prussian Brunswick, ‘over a space of forty miles,’ with his war-tumbrils, and sleeping thun- ders, and ... ...dentical metal) of St. Germain l’Auxerrois was set a-pealing—with effect. (9th to 13th September, 1572 (Dulaure, Hist. de Paris, iv. 289.) Nay the sam... ...church- plate, revolutionising and remodelling—among whom Danton, in brief space, does immensities of business; not neglecting his own wages and trade... ...llest tasks poor Humanity has. Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. Meanwhile, in a space of some five weeks, we have got to another emerging of the Trial, and... ...ly units of them ever saw Switzerland. (Deux Amis, xi. 145.) Lyons, on the 9th of October, surrenders at discretion; it is become a devoted Town. Abbe... ... de la Revolution! Then Equalisation of Weights and Measures, with decimal division; Institutions, of Music and of much else; Institute in general; Sc... ...eign of Terror; new glorious Revolu- tion named of Thermidor; of Thermidor 9th, year 2; which being interpreted into old slave-style means 27th of Jul...

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...se circumfer- ences placed one within the other, and separated by a hollow space or line, you can hardly imagine how perplexing such a face will be to... ...here of their city houses, which are built closely to- gether without open spaces, often without court-yards,—a vice of construction with the increasi... ...than to let his own be cut off. The sham ter- rorist disappeared after the 9th Thermidor, and was then inscribed on the list of emigres. The estate of... ...ees were like a plum- age. She was not conscious of a body; she hovered in space, the earth melted away under her feet. Full of admiration for the pos... ...elves embarrassed to provide for their sons under the new law of the equal division of property. T o marry the young Duc d’Herouville, it was necessar...

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...hen ‘up to’ the Rev. Charles Old Goodford, i.e. that was he who taught the division so called in school. The boy was evidently well prepared, for he w... ...ol. The boy was evidently well prepared, for he was often cap- tain of his division, and his letters frequently tell of successes of this kind, while ... ...e first half-year of 1839 had brought Patteson into the Remove, that large division of the school intermediate be- tween the fourth and fifth forms. T... ...he ex- traordinary loveliness of the early decorated architecture, and the space and loftiness of the choir. The whole, pre-eminently among the colleg... ...t we may be, what our two dear parents are, and somehow the interven- ing, space becomes smaller as the eye is fixed steadily on the glory beyond. ‘Go... ...ived the Com- munion with you. It is a blessed thought that no interval of space or time can interrupt that Communion of the Spirit, and that we are o... ...reaved family at Norfolk Island, whence a brief note to his brother on the 9th begins:— ‘Nothing can be more comforting to me than the loving patient ... ...e work it is, and to Whose guidance and protec- tion we all trust.’ On the 9th, in a letter sent by a different route, he adds:— ‘So I think it will c... ...t night, though the eruption is not continuous as it was in 1859. ‘October 9th—Near Ambrym [to the Bishop]. Some people from Aruas, the large western ...

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...brought about this resolution. The news had not spread on the morrow, June 9th. I chanced to go alone to the quarters of M. de Luxembourg, and was sur... ... position, that it seemed impossible to him we had left it in such a short space of time. When his own eyes assured him of the fact, he was filled wit... ...inted with everything as they were, to attack a portion of our army on the 9th July, at Capri, with five regiments of cavalry and dragoons. Prince Eug... ... has been heard of in recent ages, was brought to the King at Marly on the 9th of February, 1702, by Mahony. Soon after it arrived I heard of it, and ... ...s the better; but neither was adopted. What was done was, to leave a large space between our troops and the brook, that the enemy might pass at their ... ...inished by giving to the Archduke what we could not defend, and mak- ing a division of the rest. My plan was to leave Philip V. possession of all Ital... ...hed that all should be devoted to him alone, without re- serve and without division. All the Court, however, showed interest in this return, and Berin... ...ave now reached the second step, be- tween which and the third there was a space of between two and three months; but as the third had no connection w... ...Saint-Simon embroiling people one with the other, so as to profit by their divisions. This was one of his principal occupations during all the time he...

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...rge body of men or party on this side the Atlantic, and too far distant in space and immediate interest to expect much more, after the much already do... ...aster’s house. There was a creek to swim in, at the bottom of an open flat space, of twenty acres or more, called “the Long Green”—a very beautiful pl... ... of a mile distant from it; the 44 My Bondage and My Freedom intermediate space was a beautiful lawn, very neatly trimmed, and watched with the great... ...R’S SON RICHARD, SPEED- ILY FOLLOWED BY THAT OF OLD MASTER—VALU- ATION AND DIVISION OF ALL THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING THE SLAVES—MY PRESENCE RE- QUIRED A... ...vided between his two children, Andrew and Lucretia. The valuation and the division of slaves, among contend- ing heirs, is an important incident in s... ... property! Manhood lost in chattelhood! After the valuation, then came the division. This was an hour of high excitement and distressing anxiety. Our ... ...from New York to Boston, on the steamer Massachusetts, on the night of the 9th of December, 1843, when chilled almost through with the cold, I went in...

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...Henry IV., and the Duc de Guise. See De Thou, De Vita Sua, iii. 9.]—in the divisions and subdivisions by which we are at this time torn to pieces, I h... ... unmoved and without inclination in the troubles of his country and public divisions, I neither think it handsome nor honest: “Ea non media, sed ... ..., and relax a little without being faulty: there lies on the frontier some space free, indifferent, and neuter. He that has beaten and pursued her int... .... A baltheus was a shoul- der-belt or baldric.] all the sides of this vast space filled and environed, from the bottom to the top, with three or four ... ...had it not more upheld itself among us as a mark, title, and instrument of division and faction, than by itself. As in conference, the gravity, robe, ... ...alendar, and, in con- sequence, in France they all at once passed from the 9th to the 20th December.] has taken me so aback that I cannot well reconci... ... its business, without disassociating itself from the body, in that little space it must have for its necessity. They would put themselves out of them...

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...e head which wears upon its lips a smile coextensive with all time and all space, an Aeonian smile of gracious love and Pan-like mystery, the most dif... ...er’s case, this arose from the accident of his hav- ing lived abroad for a space that, measured against my life, was a very long one. First, he lived ... ....” Mrs. Barbauld, a lady now very nearly forgotten, 4 then filled a large space in the public eye; in fact, as a writer for children, she occupied th... ...itted to possess themselves of the county of Wexford in its whole southern division—Ross and Duncannon only excepted; of which the latter was not liab... ...and the other was saved by the procrastination of the rebels. The northern division of the county was overrun pretty much in the same hasty style, and... ...hman, full of courage, but presumptu- ously disdainful of the enemy, led a division upon one of the two roads, having no scouts, nor taking any sort o... ...irit of procrastination, however, the rebel army halted at Gorey until the 9th, and then advanced with what seemed the overpowering force of 27,000 me... ...ad been positively emptied of all inhabitants whatsoever. Ex- actly on the 9th, the old garrison had been ordered back from Wicklow, and reënforced by... ...lity. From the defeat of Arklow, the rebels gradually retired, between the 9th and the 20th of June, to their main military position of Vinegar Hill, ...

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...build ings. I had his majesty’s permission to step over this wall; and, the space being so wide between that and the palace, I could easily view it o... ...other in my hand; this I lifted over the roof, and gently set it down on the space between the first and second court, which was eight feet wide. I th... ...rse; but it was im possible for me to compute their number, considering the space of ground they took up. A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might... ...se, in all human appearance, than death itself. My men were sent by an equal division into both the pirate ships, and my sloop new manned. As to mysel... ...her, with particular instructions about the business of the crucifix. On the 9th day of June, 1709, I arrived at Nangasac, after a very long and troub... ...ting nothing less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me. Upon the 9th day of May, 1711, one James Welch came down to my cabin, and said, “h... ...hat necessity. He knew not what could be the use of those several clefts and divisions in my feet behind; that these were too soft to bear the hardnes...

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...beneath whose heavy tread the slight structure creaked and groaned for the space of several minutes. “Father,” said Mercedes, stopping when she had re... ...an to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for F... ...ed by a stone fitting in so closely as to defy all suspicion, was a hollow space, and in this space a ladder of cords between twenty-five and thirty f... ...rily, then suddenly rise, and, with folded arms, begin pacing the confined space of his dungeon. One day he stopped all at once, and exclaimed, “Ah, i... ... secret closet in the cabin at his bed’s head, the closet to contain three divisions, so constructed as to be concealed from all but himself. The buil...

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...ll the houses are inside the wall, but there isn’t room for another one. It is really a fin- ished town, and has been finished a very long time. There... ...mended him to take, and dog’d if he wanted to risk his neck going over those mountain roads on wheels in the dead of winter, not if he knew himself. “... ...hich had a stove in it. This stove was in a corner, and densely walled around with people. We could not get near the fire, so we moved at large in the... ...ked the limit of real estate in this world. It would be hard to set a money value upon any piece of earth that lies between that spot and the empty re... ...ent at the upper end, like a lady’s finger; one monster sugar-loaf resembled a bishop’s hat; it was too steep to hold snow on its sides, but had some ...

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...which they are opposed divided among them- selves, and not try to stop the division, and rather be glad of it,—if that is an alliance, I confess I am ... ...y deprive the owners of them. All experience shows this to be so. All that space of time that runs from the beginning of the settlement of the Territo... ...of union, and, on the contrary, been an apple of discord and an element of division in the house. I ask you to consider whether, so long as the moral ... ...irritating position in which it now is, it will not continue an element of division? If so, then I have a right to say that, in regard to this questio... ...irst blow was struck.” When my friend Judge Douglas came to Chicago on the 9th of July, this speech having been delivered on the 16th of June, he made... ...a right to declare he speaks his sentiments “frankly and manfully.” On the 9th of June Colonel John Dougherty, Governor Reynolds, and others, calling ... ...nd his answer will be found in the Congressiona1 Globe, under date of June 9th, 1856. The Judge said that whether the people could exclude slavery pri...

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.... With- out any violation of the truth, the mere extent of his field as to space and time gave him great advantages for the wild and the marvellous. M... ...energies of the will, and upon the harmonious coopera- tion of its several divisions. Thus far, I say, there is no call made out for any intervention ... ...This knowledge and this control is much assisted and con- centrated by the division of the university into separate col- leges. Here comes another fea... ...s. This argument, which, in a proper situation, and with ampler disposable space, we shall expose in its strength, will show that it was not that neut... ...ce as mere private sec- retary to Admiral Tchitchagoff, in 1812, had, in a space of three years, insinuated himself into the favor of the Czar, so far... ...atitude,” in letters from two members of the Russian cabi- net; and on the 9th of April this fact was publicly notified in Yassy, the capital of Molda... ...h ulterior purposes hostile to Mahometanism itself. On this, the Christian division of the army found themselves obliged to retire without noise, in o...