 | Robert Granville Caldwell - 1925 - Страниц: 578
...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,... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - Страниц: 526
..."nothing but a living, creeping lie" and of one Douglas argument that it got down as thin as "soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." Picking up a trick compliment from Douglas, he smiled it into thin air with the comment, "Not being... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - Страниц: 790
...running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? [Laughter.] 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? [Roars of laughter and cheering.] . . . ' The Dred Scott decision covers the whole ground, and while... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on patents - 1928 - Страниц: 216
...to the point, you know, gentlemen, where, as Abraham Lincoln once said, "It will be as thin as soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." [Laughter.] It may be pointed out, and will be, that this royalty has amounted in all these years to... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents - 1928 - Страниц: 212
...to the point, you know, gentlemen, where, as Abraham Lincoln once said, "It will be as thin as- soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." [Laughter.] It may be pointed out, and will be, that this royalty has amounted in all these years to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - Страниц: 292
...at all. [Continued laughter.] Is not that running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? [Laughter.] Has it not got down as thin as the homoeopathic soup...the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? [Roars of laughter and cheering.] DOUGLAS AT ALTON: I answer specifically if you want a further answer,... | |
 | United States. Social Security Administration - 1982 - Страниц: 406
...other than the Tax Court leads to such a result ' While we cannot say that the theory of Barrett is "as thin as the homoeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death," see Beamsley v. Commissioner, 205 F.2d 743, 748 (7th Cir 1953) (attributed... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - 1996 - Страниц: 486
...not that running his popular sovereignty down awfully? Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon...the test of close reasoning, there is not even that decoction of it left. It is a presumption impossible in the domain of thought. It is precisely no other... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - Страниц: 946
...at all. [Continued laughter.] Is not that running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? [Laughter.] Has it not got down as thin as the homoeopathic soup...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, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - Страниц: 474
...at all. [Continued laughter.] Is not that running his popular sovereignty down awfully? [Laughter.] Has it not got down as thin as the homoeopathic soup...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... | |
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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? 
