| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 428 strani
...Dec. 1O, 1856, vol. II, p. 30Q. HOMEOPATHIC PIGEON SOUP Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? Rejoinder at Quincy Debate, Oct. 13, 1858, vol. IV, p. 380. WOOD SOAKED FOR Ox-Bows Like wood for ox-bows,... | |
| Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 576 strani
...their midst." n This rare sophism, "as thin," to use a Lincolnian illustration, "as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," had nevertheless served Douglas's purpose with the Democrats of Illinois. But... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 strani
...that running his popular sovereignty down awfully T Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death 1 But at last, when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there is not even that thin decoction... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 744 strani
...running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? [Laughter.] Has it not got down as thin as the homcepathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? [Roars of laughter and cheering.] But at last when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 strani
...Dec. IO, 1856, vol. II, p. 309. HOMEOPATHIC PIGEON SOUP Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? Rejoinder at Quincy Debate, Oct. 13, 1858, vol. IV, p. 380. WOOD SOAKED FOR Ox- Bows Like wood for... | |
| Wayne Whipple - 1908 - 828 strani
...Freeport Sophism This rare sophism, "as thin," to use a Lincolnian illustration, " as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," had nevertheless served Douglas's purpose with the Democrats of Illinois. But... | |
| Wayne Whipple - 1908 - 768 strani
...Freeport Sophism This rare sophism, "as thin," to use a Lincolnian illustration, " as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," had nevertheless served Douglas's purpose with the Democrats of Illinois. But... | |
| Hudson Maxim - 1910 - 488 strani
...the remark of Abraham Lincoln upon a windy speech: "Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death!" Henry Ward Beecher, during a speech on behalf of the North, at the time of the Rebellion, was interrupted... | |
| Arthur Henry Chamberlain - 1913 - 192 strani
...speech of Douglas in the famous Alton debate, which he said contained as "little substance as soap made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." Did not the school of a half-century past, crude and undeveloped though it was, meet the demands of... | |
| Robert Granville Caldwell - 1925 - 576 strani
...indirect nullification. As Lincoln put it, popular sovereignty "had got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." In a very close election, Douglas retained enough of his popularity to be reelected to the Senate,... | |
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