"June 24" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jones, requesting a copy of the Constitution of North Carolina; there was the Ku Klux warning issued to one Ben Turner of Northampton County; and there was an old newspaper advertisement signed by James J. Selby, a tailor, dated at Raleigh, June 24, 1824, offering a reward of ten dollars for the capture and return of two runaways: "apprentice boys, legally bound, named William and Andrew Johnson." The last named boy was the same Andrew Johnson who later became a distinctly ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
... Sevigne in describing a death wrote:—'Cela nous fit voir qu'on joue long-temps la comedie, et qu'a la mort on dit la verite.' Letter of June 24, 1672. Addison says:—'The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well-written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate is which they undergo.... That innocent mirth which had been so conspicuous in Sir Thomas ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... at Magenta, and on June 8, Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel entered Milan amid the rejoicings of the people. The Austrians managed the campaign very badly, and were again defeated at Solferino (June 24). ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... included among the grievances against which public protests were made in 1641. The five judges who pronounced in its favour were imprisoned, and Hampden received a wound in a skirmish with Prince Rupert, from which he died, June 24, 1643. Petitions were also presented to Sir Edward Hussey, sheriff, 1636-7, as given in Domestic State Papers, Charles I., Vol. 345, ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter
... two sisters, Birons too. But I flew off, and would not, saying I had had enough of introductions for that night at least."—Letters, 1899, iii. 98. The "daughters of Courland" must have been descendants of "Pierre, dernier Duc de Courlande, De la Maison de Biron," viz. Jeanne Catherine, born June 24, 1783, who married, in 1801, Francois Pignatelli de Belmonte, Duc d'Acerenza, and Dorothee, born August 21, 1793, who married, in 1809, Edmond de Talleyrand Perigord, Duc de Talleyrand, nephew to the Bishop of Autun. (See Almanach de Gotha, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
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