 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 oldal
...Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddings and James A. Garfield represented the district for fiftyfour years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House, he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1882 - 22 oldal
...Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddings, and James A. Garfield represented the district for fifty-four years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 522 oldal
...Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddihgs, and James A. Garfield represented the district for fifty-four years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
 | Francis Marion Green - 1882 - 460 oldal
...Whittlesev, Joshua R. Giddings, and James A. Garfield represented that district for fifty-four years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1882 - 74 oldal
...civilian's dress, he answered to the roll-call as a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio. / There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he He was especially fortunate in the constituency which elected... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1882 - 104 oldal
...Whittlesey, Joshua R. Gidclings, and JAMES A. GARFIELD represented the district for fifty-four years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1882 - 100 oldal
...fifty-four years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department of public life more severe than 24 service in the House of Representatives; there is...beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1882 - 106 oldal
...Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddings, and JAMES A. GARFIELD represented the district for fifty-four years. There is no test of a man's ability in any department of public life more severe than 24 service in the House of Representatives; there is no place where so little deference is paid to... | |
 | 1883 - 906 oldal
...debater, and often counts for as much in persuading an assembly as the eloquent and elaborate argtmcnt." u There is no test of a man's ability in any department of public life того sei-ero than service in the House ot Representatives; there is no place where so little deference... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1884 - 562 oldal
...Whittlesey, Joshua R. Giddings, and James A. Garfield represented the district for fifty-four years. " There is no test of a man's ability in any department...beginners. What a man gains in the House, he gains by sheer force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must expect no mercy, and will... | |
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There is no test of a man's ability in any department of public life more severe than service in the House of Representatives ; there is no place where so little deference is paid to reputation previously acquired, or to eminence won outside ; no place... 
