Random Recollections of Early Days in MississippiVicksburg printing and publishing Company, 1885 - 158 Seiten |
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Seite 117 - The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done ; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Seite 151 - He's in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady! the whole brigade! Hill's at the ford, cut off — we'll win His way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? "Quick -step! we're with him before dawn!" That's "Stonewall Jackson's way.
Seite 1 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Seite 92 - No law shall ever be passed to raise a loan of money upon the credit of the State, or to pledge the faith of the State for the payment or redemption of any loan or debt...
Seite 93 - Representatives, and be agreed to by a majority of the members of each house, and entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and be referred to the next succeeding legislature, and published for three months previous to the next regular election, in three newspapers of this state; and unless a majority of each branch of the legislature so elected, after such publication, shall agree to, and pass such law ; and in such case the yeas and nays shall be taken, and entered on the...
Seite 141 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Seite 84 - What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon when I may as Well walk at liberty ? I have a key in my bosom, called PROMISE, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in DOUBTING CASTLE.
Seite 24 - I'm heading for the shore, I'll ring the bell for I must land This boat, forevermore. Say, pilot, can you see that light? I do — where angels stand. Well, hold her jackstaff hard on that, For there I'm going to land. That looks like death a hailing me, So ghastly grim and pale, I'll toll the bell — I must go in, I never missed a hail.
Seite 137 - Mississippi, code of 1880, it is provided that "the marriage of a white person to a Negro or mulatto or person who shall have onefourth or more of Negro blood, shall be unlawful"; and as this prohibition does not seem sufficiently emphatic, it is further declared to be "incestuous and void," and is punished by the same penalty prescribed for marriage within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity.
Seite 8 - Sometimes a three or five years business would be so profitable to a sober and prudent merchant as to enable him to retire — to sell out to his clerks and go to planting, or to New Orleans to engage in larger operations.