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| so:description | Chapter XVI The Press (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (en) |
| so:description | Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
| so:description | Chapter V Berlin (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XV Darwinism (en) |
| so:description | Chapter I Quincy (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams |
| so:description | Chapter XVII President Grant (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (en) |
| so:text | Had Grant been a Congressman one would have been on one’s guard, for one knew the type. One never expected from a Congressman more than good intentions and public spirit. Newspaper-men as a rule had no great respect for the lower House; Senators had less; and Cabinet officers had none at all. Indeed, one day when Adams was pleading with a Cabinet officer for patience and tact in dealing with Representatives, the Secretary impatiently broke out: “You can’t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! (en) |
| so:description | ;Preface (en) |
| so:description | Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
| so:description | The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VII Treason (en) |
| so:description | Chapter III Washington (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
| so:description | Chapter II Boston (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VI Rome (en) |
| so:description | Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
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