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Pray present my best respects to Tetard, and assure him of my wishes to serve him at all times, and on all occasions. Yours, Philadelphia, February 14th, 1780. My Dear Burr, I have resigned my office, and am now preparing to leave Philadelphia to go to Princeton, agreeable to the plan in my letter by Colonel Wadsworth.
The very power that had hitherto been the making of him the literary power, revealing to men in wonderfully convincing form the ideas which they felt within them but could not utter this had deserted him. Explain the psychology of it any way you will, there is the fact! The speeches Lincoln made on the way to Washington during the latter part of February were appallingly unlike himself.
Of the famous Lupercalia in February, and some other festivals which neither died out altogether nor were converted into ludi, we only know the ritual, and cannot tell whether they were still used as popular holidays.
WASHINGTON, February 18, 1842. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I have the honor to invite the attention of Congress to the accompanying letter, addressed to me by the Secretary of State. You will doubtless perceive the importance of furnishing a uniform rule for the guidance of the public officers in the matter referred to in the Secretary's letter.
But in February, when everything was at its coldest and iciest, Charley came back, Charley or his ghost, for the tall, thin, starved-looking ragged boy set down at the gate was very unlike the stout, rosy lad of the year before.
WASHINGTON, February 6, 1818. To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the Secretary of State, in compliance with the resolution of said House requesting information respecting the ratification of the thirteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States. WASHINGTON, February 10, 1818.
Only the Vigils were requested to come with their lanterns, to light the gentlefolks home at night. All the Days came to their day. Covers were provided for three hundred and sixty-five guests at the principal table: with an occasional knife and fork at the side-board for the Twenty-Ninth of February. I should have told you, that cards of invitation had been issued.
With this force General Smith was ordered to move from Memphis straight for Meridian, Mississippi, and to start by February 1st.
This faithful man was so ill and weak that it was thought he could not recover, yet notwithstanding the stormy weather, the factions on board, and although his home was almost in sight, only twelve miles across the Downs, he refused to quit the ship. They took the old route by the West Indies. George Percy notes that on the 12th of February they saw a blazing star, and presently a storm.
The heads of the Louisville and Nashville road were bitter opponents of everything done by the Government toward securing good treatment for their employees. In February, 1908, they and various other railways announced that they intended to reduce the wages of their employees. A general strike, with all the attendant disorder and trouble, was threatened in consequence.
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