"Trumbull" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their ease. On this subject there can be only conjecture; time will decide. An interesting book, "In Korea with Marquis Ito," which has been published during the year, deals with this question fully; George Trumbull Ladd is the author. ...
— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
... have not finished the eighth grade and who are staying away from school constitute twenty-nine per cent. of the population in the consolidated schools, as against sixty-three per cent. in the district schools. The Vernon consolidated school in Trumbull County, Ohio, has enrolled nearly nine-tenths of the children of school age. Before the consolidation only three-fifths ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing
... Trumbull, Jonathan, his message on better government praised by Washington, ii. 21; letters to, 42; Washington's friendship ...
— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge
... shades of compromise sentiment,—from those who were ready to sacrifice anything in order to prevent secession, to Abraham Lincoln, who was only willing to surrender the barren and unpopulated State of New Mexico to the slaveholders. [Footnote: A not unreasonable proposition.] But Sumner, Wade, Trumbull, Wilson, and King stood together like a rocky coast against which the successive waves of compromise dashed without effect. Von Hoist was notified of this fact years before the last volume of his history was published, ...
— Cambridge Sketches • Frank Preston Stearns |
