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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XIII, Chapter 28 (search)
forces sent by the Lacedaemonians to the aid of Syracuse; cp. chap. 7. who still maintained implacable his hatred of Athenians, mounting the rostrum began his argument with that topic. "I am greatly surprised, men of Syracuse, to see that you so quickly, on a matter in which you have suffered grievously by deeds, are moved to change your minds by words.Cp. "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here" (Lincoln, The Gettysburg Oration). For if you who, in order to save your city from desolation, faced peril against men who came to destroy your country, have become relaxed in temper, why, then, should we who have suffered no wrong exert ourselves? Do you in heaven's name, men of Syracuse, grant me pardon as I set forth my counsel with all frankness; for, being a Spartan, I have also a Spartan's manner of speech. And first of all one might inquire how Nicolaus can say, 'S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bryan, William Jennings, 1860- (search)
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860- Politician; born in Salem, Ill., March 19, 1860; was graduated at Illinois College in 1881, and at Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1883. He practised in Jacksonville, Ill., from 1883 till 1887, then removed to Lincoln, Neb., and was elected to Congress as a Democrat, serving in 1891-95. In 1894-96 he was editor of the Omaha World-Herald, and in the latter year a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago. He there made a notable speech advocating the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The free-silver element in the convention was far stronger than the leaders of the party imagined, and there was as munch surprise in the convention as out of it when its prize, the Presidential nomination, was awarded to him. The Sound-money Democrats repudiated the nomination, organized the National Democratic party, and put forth a separate platform and national ticket. The Populists, however, adopted the Democratic n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Strong, Frank 1859- (search)
Strong, Frank 1859- Author; born in Venice, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1859; graduated at Yale College in 1884; principal of the High School in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1888-92; and superintendent of public schools in Lincoln, Neb., in 1892-95; became lecturer on History at Yale College in 1897. He is the author of Life of Benjamin Franklin; and A forgotten danger to the New England colonies.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Women, Advancement of (search)
ian Temperance Union, National Association, organized in Cleveland, O......Nov. 17-18, 1874 Dr. Sarah H. Stevenson, of Chicago, admitted as a delegate (the first woman) to the American Medical Association at Philadelphia......1876 Mrs. Belva Lockwood admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, 1879; disability removed by an act of Congress approved......Feb. 15, 1879 [Others since admitted: Laura De Force Gordon, of Stockton, Cal.; Ada M. Bittenbender, of Lincoln, Neb.; Carrie Barnham Kilgore, of Philadelphia; Clara M. Foltz, of San Diego, Cal.; Lelia Robinson-Sawtelle, of Boston; Emma M. Gillet, of Washington, D. C.] Woman's Christian Temperance Union founded in the United States by Frances E. Willard......1883 Mrs. Belva Lockwood accepts the nomination for President of the United States from the California Woman's Suffrage Convention......September, 1884 A select committee of the United States Senate, Feb. 7, 1889, and the House judiciary co