Men call him an adventurer; but Philadelphia knows that before the war gave him a national fame, Jay Cooke was one of her wealthy and public-spirited citizens -- a modest, unpretending ...

After a full review of the academic progress of the college, in science and letters, a condensed and logical argument is presented, -- under the unpretending form of a historical review ...

for Nature is always silent and unpretending as at the break of day. She but rubs her eyelids. Monday, April 26, 1841. At R. W. E.’s. The charm of the Indian to me is that he stands free and ...

I am simply going to do my plain, unpretending duty, when I cannot get out of it…. I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.”— ...

But if Louis XVI., "Louis le Desire," had been a plain, unpretending simpleton, half conscious of his own nullity, without any fixed opinions, ruled principally by the habits contracted during his ...

Born in 1762, died in 1830. A man equally distinguished for the disinterested integrity of his public conduct, and the unpretending virtues of his private life. In Parliament he was long conspicuous ...