 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 226 páginas
...Greece and Rome — nay the proudest days of Cromwell and Napoleon — can not furnish an instance of will like that of Andrew Jackson, when he placed life and soul and fame at the hazard of a die for the People's welfare. GEORGE LIPPARD. HEZEKIAH BEDOTT. Read in a somewhat... | |
 | 1890 - 632 páginas
...Greece and Rome — nay the proudest days of Cromwell and Napoleon — can not furnish an instance of will like that of Andrew Jackson, when he placed life and soul and fame at the hazard of a die for the People's welfare. GEORGE LIPPARD, HEZEKIAH BEDOTT. Read in a somewhat... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 392 páginas
...Greece and Rome, — nay, the proudest days of Cromwell and Napoleon, — cannot furnish an instance of will like that of Andrew Jackson, when he placed life and soul and fame at the hazard of a die for the People's welfare" " We go forth," said Emerson, " austere, dedicated,... | |
 | Lawrence Frederick Kohl - 1991 - 279 páginas
...course I have chosen!" I must confess that the records of Greece and Rome— nay, the proudest days of Napoleon, cannot furnish an instance of a WILL like that of ANDREW JACKSON. Henry Clay too compared Jackson to Greek and Roman leaders and to Napoleon, but the inference he drew... | |
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... against the rock, and folding his arms for the blow, while he uttered his awful vow : " By the Eternal ! I will not swerve one inch from the course I have chosen ! " I must confess that the records of Greece and Rome — nay the proudest days of Cromwell... 