 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - Страниц: 428
...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 - Страниц: 576
...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 - Страниц: 738
...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 - Страниц: 744
...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 - Страниц: 78
...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 - Страниц: 828
...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 - Страниц: 762
...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 - Страниц: 488
...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 - Страниц: 192
...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 - Страниц: 576
...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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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? 
