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# Six Months at the White House/XIX

XIX.
The evening of March 25th was an intensely interesting one to me. It was passed with the President alone in his study, marked by no interruptions. Busy with pen and papers when I entered, he presently threw them aside, and commenced talking again about Shakspeare. Little Tad coming in, he sent him to the library for a copy of the plays, from which he read aloud several of his favorite passages. Relapsing into a sadder strain, he laid the book aside, and leaning back in his chair, said, "There is a poem that has been a great favorite with me for years, to which my attention was first called when a young man, by a friend, and which I afterward saw and cut from a newspaper, and carried in my pocket, till by frequent reading I had it by heart. I would give a great deal," he added, "to know who wrote it, but I never could ascertain." Then, half closing his eyes, he repeated the poem, "Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" Surprised and delighted, I told him that I should greatly prize a copy of the lines. He replied that he had recently written them out for Mrs. Stanton, but promised that when a favorable opportunity occurred he would give them to me.
Varying the subject, he continued: "There are some quaint, queer verses, written, I think, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, entitled, 'The Last Leaf,' ​one of which is to me inexpressibly touching. He then repeated these also from memory. The verse he referred to occurs in about the middle of the poem, and is this:—
As he finished this verse, he said, in his emphatic way, "For pure pathos, in my judgment, there is nothing finer than those six lines in the English language!"
A day or two afterward, he asked me to accompany him to the temporary studio, at the Treasury Department, of Mr. Swayne, the sculptor, who was making a bust of him. While he was sitting, it occurred to me to improve the opportunity to secure the promised poem. Upon mentioning the subject, the sculptor surprised me by saying that he had at his home, in Philadelphia, a printed copy of the verses, taken from a newspaper some years previous. The President inquired if they were published in any connection with his name. Mr. Swayne said that they purported to have been written "by Abraham Lincoln." "I have heard of that before, and that's why I asked," returned the President. "But there is no truth in it. The poem was first shown to me by a young man named 'Jason Duncan,' many years ago."
​The sculptor was using for a studio the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury Department, an irregular room, packed nearly full of law books. Seating myself, I believe, upon a pile of these at Mr. Lincoln's feet, he kindly repeated the lines, which I wrote down, one by one, as they fell from his lips:—
OH! WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD?
# Secret History (Procopius)

English-language translations of Ἀνέκδοτα include:
* Secret History of the Court of the Emperor Justinian, printed for John Barkesdale Bookbinder (1674)
* Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater (1927)
* The Secret History or The Anecdota, translated by H. B. Dewing (1935)
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# Secret History of the French Court under Richelieu and Mazarin

this text based on an 1871 edition
TO
Marie E. Zakrzewska, M. D.,
THIS VOLUME
IS CORDIALLY INSCRIBED
BY HER FRIEND.
THE TRANSLATOR.
SECRET HISTORY
OF THE
FRENCH COURT
UNDER
RICHELIEU AND MAZARIN;
OR,
Life and Times of Madame de Chevreuse.
BY
VICTOR COUSIN,
AUTHOR OF "THE TRUE, THE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE GOOD," "COURSE OF PHILOSOPHY," "YOUTH OF MADAME DE LONGUEVILLE," ETC., ETC.
TRANSLATED BY
MARY L. BOOTH.
NEW YORK: JAMES MILLER, PUBLISHER, 647 BROADWAY, 1871.
PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
Among the most admired of Victor Cousin's works are his "Studies of the Illustrious Women and the Society of the Seventeenth Century;" and of these none has excited so much attention as his "Life of Madame de Chevreuse." In this charming biography, which certainly reads very much like a romance, the author claims the merit of a scrupulous and exact adherence to the truth of history. He controverts many received opinions and forces the reader to abandon many established hypotheses, but he does it upon the incontestable evidence of cotemporary writers and of documents that, were supposed to be lost or not known to exist. Among these are a hitherto unknown memoir of Richelieu concerning the secret affairs of 1633, which produced the imprisonment of Châteauneuf, keeper of the seals; the unpublished examinations of La Porte and the Abbess of Val-de-Grâce in 1637; the autograph Carnets of Mazarin, explained and developed by the evidence of his secret police, and ​several inedited letters of Queen Anne to the cardinal which solve the question of their relations.
Madame Chevreuse coped with Richelieu in the adroit political intrigues which marked the close of the reign of Louis XIII. and excited the admiration of all Europe; and in Cardinal Mazarin's memorable struggle at the beginning of his ministry and of the regency against the "Importants" (those predecessors of the "Frondeurs"), he encountered no more powerful adversary or none who gave him more anxiety than she. The author in his romantic memoir only rapidly sketches the early and the later life of his subject, dwelling most upon her career as an actress in the great drama of 1643; and his work was intended to be not so much the story of one of the most brilliant female politicians that France has ever produced, as a revelation of the secret history of the French Court under Richelieu and Mazarin.
CONTENTS.
FIRST PART.
MADAME DE CHEVREUSE AND RICHELIEU.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
SECOND PART.
MADAME DE CHEVREUSE AND MAZARIN.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
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# Secret History of the French Court under Richelieu and Mazarin/Annotated

Annotated version with links for unfamiliar words and concepts
TO
Marie E. Zakrzewska, M. D.,
THIS VOLUME
IS CORDIALLY INSCRIBED
BY HER FRIEND.
THE TRANSLATOR.
SECRET HISTORY
OF THE
FRENCH COURT
UNDER
RICHELIEU AND MAZARIN;
OR,
Life and Times of Madame de Chevreuse.
BY
VICTOR COUSIN,
AUTHOR OF "THE TRUE, THE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE GOOD," "COURSE OF PHILOSOPHY," "YOUTH OF MADAME DE LONGUEVILLE," ETC., ETC.
TRANSLATED BY
MARY L. BOOTH.
NEW YORK: JAMES MILLER, PUBLISHER, 647 BROADWAY, 1871.
PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
Among the most admired of Victor Cousin's works are his "Studies of the Illustrious Women and the Society of the Seventeenth Century;" and of these none has excited so much attention as his "Life of Madame de Chevreuse." In this charming biography, which certainly reads very much like a romance, the author claims the merit of a scrupulous and exact adherence to the truth of history. He controverts many received opinions and forces the reader to abandon many established hypotheses, but he does it upon the incontestable evidence of cotemporary writers and of documents that, were supposed to be lost or not known to exist. Among these are a hitherto unknown memoir of Richelieu concerning the secret affairs of 1633, which produced the imprisonment of Châteauneuf, keeper of the seals; the unpublished examinations of La Porte and the Abbess of Val-de-Grâce in 1637; the autograph Carnets of Mazarin, explained and developed by the evidence of his secret police, and ​several inedited letters of Queen Anne to the cardinal which solve the question of their relations.
Madame Chevreuse coped with Richelieu in the adroit political intrigues which marked the close of the reign of Louis XIII. and excited the admiration of all Europe; and in Cardinal Mazarin's memorable struggle at the beginning of his ministry and of the regency against the "Importants" (those predecessors of the "Frondeurs"), he encountered no more powerful adversary or none who gave him more anxiety than she. The author in his romantic memoir only rapidly sketches the early and the later life of his subject, dwelling most upon her career as an actress in the great drama of 1643; and his work was intended to be not so much the story of one of the most brilliant female politicians that France has ever produced, as a revelation of the secret history of the French Court under Richelieu and Mazarin.
CONTENTS.
FIRST PART.
MADAME DE CHEVREUSE AND RICHELIEU.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
SECOND PART.
MADAME DE CHEVREUSE AND MAZARIN.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
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# Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century/Preface

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE
In the Preface to "The Eastern Question," by Karl Marx, published in 1897, the Editors, Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, referred to two series of papers entitled "The Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston," and "Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century," which they promised to publish at an early date.
Mrs. Aveling did not live long enough to see these papers through the press, but she left them in such a forward state, and we have had so many inquiries about them since, that we venture to issue them without Mrs. Aveling's final revision in two shilling pamphlets.
THE PUBLISHERS.
# Smith v. Jennings

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United States Supreme Court
206 U.S. 276
Smith v. Jennings
Argued: April 24, 25, 1907. --- Decided: May, 13, 1907
206 U.S. 276
27 S.Ct. 610
51 L.Ed. 1061 HENRY A. M. SMITH, as Receiver of the late Corporation Named and Styled 'The President, Directors, & Company of the State Bank,' Plff. in Err.,
v.
R. H. JENNINGS, as Treasurer of the State of South Carolina.
No. 104.
Argued April 24, 25, 1907.
Decided May, 13, 1907.
Messrs. T. W. Bacot, A. M. Lee, and Julian Mitchell, Jr., for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Charles A. Douglas and E. B. Sherrill for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Moody delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company

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United States Supreme Court
270 U.S. 587
Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Argued: March 5, 1926. --- Decided: April 12, 1926
Messrs. Harry C. Heyl and R. H. Radley, both of Peoria, Ill., and Edward J. Brundage and Oscar E. Carlstrom, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.
Mr. Wm. D. Bangs, of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Smith v. Indiana

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United States Supreme Court
191 U.S. 138
Smith v. Indiana
Argued: October 22, 23, 1903. --- Decided: November 16, 1903
This was a petition filed in the circuit court of Marion county by the state, upon the relation of Martha and Benjamin Lewis, against the auditor of Marion county, for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, in his official capacity, to allow an exemption of a mortgage of $500 upon a lot of land in Indianapolis owned by the relators, and that the same be deducted from the value of such lot.
The petition was based upon an act passed by the general assembly March 4, 1899, the first section of which declares: 'That any person being the owner of real estate liable for taxation within the state of Indiana, and being indebted in any sum, secured by mortgage upon real estate, may have the amount of such mortgage indebtedness, not exceeding $700, existing and unpaid upon the first day of April of any year, deducted from the assessed valuation of mortgage premises for that year, and the amount of such valuation remaining after such deduction shall have been nade shall form the basis for assessment and taxation for said real estate for said year.' [Horner's Anno. Stat. (Ind.) § 6272a.]
An alternative writ having been issued, defendant interposed a general demurrer, which was sustained by the court, and the relators declining to plead further, judgment was entered against them.
Upon appeal to the supreme court, the action of the court below was reversed, the law held to be constitutional, and the cause remanded. 158 Ind. 543, 63 N. E. 25, 214, 64 N. E. 18. Thereupon the defendant made formal return to the writ, alleging the unconstitutionality of the act, both under the state and Federal Constitutions, to which relators demurred. The demurrer was sustained, and a judgment entered for a peremptory mandamus commanding the defendant to allow the exemption, and to deduct from the assessed valuation of the real estate the amount of the mortgage, $500, and also that relators recover from the defendant their costs, which, however, appear never to have been taxed. This judgment was subsequently affirmed by the supreme court upon the authority of its opinion upon the previous appeal, and a writ of error sued out from this court:
Messrs. Horace E. Smith and Roscoe O. Hawkins for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 139-145 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Cassius C. Hadley, L. G. Rothschild, and William C. Geake for defendant in error.
Statement by Mr. Justice Brown:
[Argument of Counsel from pages 145-148 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Brown delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Smith v. Jackson

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United States Supreme Court
246 U.S. 388
Smith v. Jackson
Argued: March 6 and 7, 1918. --- Decided: April 15, 1918
Messrs. B. F. Harrah and Walter W. Warwick, both of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Joseph W. Bailey, of Washington, D. C., for defendant in error.
Mr. Chief Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Speech of the Four Bears to the Rees and Mandans

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Last speech given just before the Four Bears death; passed along by fur trader A. R. Bouis from where it ended up the papers of the Missouri Historical Society's Ludlow Field Maury Collection
My friends, all you that are here listen to what I say:
Since I can recollect, I have loved the whites. I have lived with them and never have I done them any injury. On the contrary, I have always protected them from the insults of my people: let them deny it if they can.
The Four Bears never saw a white man in distress but he done all in his power to assist him. If he was hungry I fed him; if he was fatigued my lodge was always open for him to rest and make himself at home in; and I was ready to die for them.
And how have I been repaid? By the more ingratitude. I never called the whites dogs, but today I do pronounce them real dogs, with hearts black and rancorous against poor unfortunate beings -- whose only sin -- is to have been too good to them.
They have deceived me. Those whom I considered as brothers have proved my most bitter enemies. I have been in many battles and often wounded; but the wounds I received from my enemies I glory in. Today I am wounded and by whom? -- by those dogs of whites that I considered my friends.
I do not fear death, you all know my friends. But to see my face so disfigured that the wolves, when they see me, would recoil with horror and say to themselves: There is the Four Bears, the friend of the white man, is past all endurance.
This is the last time here that you will hear me. I pray you therefore to listen to what I say. Think of your wives, your children, your fathers, your mothers. Think of all you hold most dear on earth when they are dead or dying by that dreadful curse brought among us by those dogs, the whites.
And are we tamely to submit to this? No, let us rise in a body. Let vengeance be the watchword. And before the sun has set I hope -- those -- will not one of them be alive.
The Four Bears will do his share.
He died that day without being able to put his threats in execution, and was buried near Fort Clark. On a long pole near his tomb may be seen with scalps as Trophies of his exploits which he took from his enemies in the many encounters he had with them.
A. R. Bouis
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# Sketches by Boz

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. Dickens' career as a writer of fiction truly began with this collection in 1833, when he started writing humorous sketches for The Morning Chronicle, using the pen-name "Boz". The first edition was accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. Warning: template has been deprecated. one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

## Contents
### Our parish

* The beadle. The parish engine. The schoolmaster.
* The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
* The four sisters
* The election for beadle
* The broker's man
* The ladies' societies
* Our next-door neighbour

### Scenes

* The streets - morning
* The streets - night
* Shops and their tenants
* Scotland Yard
* Seven Dials
* Meditations in Monmouth-Street
* Hackney-coach stands
* Doctors' Commons
* London recreations
* The river
* Astley's
* Greenwich fair
* Private theatres
* Vauxhall Gardens by day
* Early coaches
* Omnibuses
* The last cab-driver, and the first omnibus cad
* A parliamentary sketch
* Public dinners
* The first of may
* Brokers' and marine-store shops
* Gin-shops
* The pawnbroker's shop
* Criminal courts
* A visit to Newgate

### Thoughts about people

* Thoughts about people
* A Christmas dinner
* The New Year
* Miss Evans and the eagle
* The parlour orator
* The hospital patient
* The misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce
* The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition
* The dancing academy
* Shabby-genteel people
* Making a night of it
* The prisoners' van

### Tales

* The boarding-house
** Chapter the first.
** Chapter the second.
* Mr. Minns and his cousin
* Sentiment
* The Tuggses at Ramsgate
* Horatio Sparkins
* The black veil
* The steam excursion
* The great Winglebury duel
* Mrs. Joseph Porter
* A passage in the life of Mr. Watkins Tottle
** Chapter the first.
** Chapter the second.
* The Bloomsbury christening
* The drunkard's death
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# Sketches at Brighton

Article series in Once a Week.
* I. Aqua Marina
* II. The Joneses of Montpelier
* III. A Reception
* IV. A Boarding-house
# St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 1/Advertisements/Back/Santa Fe: Grand Canyon

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