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... COLLEGE 221 JAMES GORDON BENNETT AND THE NEW YORK HERALD 259 CHARLES GOODYEAR 307 HENRY WARD BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH . 347 COMMODORE VANDERBILT 373 · THEODOSIA BURR 391 JOHN JACOB ASTOR 427 HENRY CLAY . THE HENRY CLAY . HE close of.
... COLLEGE 221 JAMES GORDON BENNETT AND THE NEW YORK HERALD 259 CHARLES GOODYEAR 307 HENRY WARD BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH . 347 COMMODORE VANDERBILT 373 · THEODOSIA BURR 391 JOHN JACOB ASTOR 427 HENRY CLAY . THE HENRY CLAY . HE close of.
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... college was thirteen months . He could translate Cicero's orations with some ease , and make out with difficulty and labor the easiest sentences of the Greek Reader , and that was the whole of what was called his " preparation " for college ...
... college was thirteen months . He could translate Cicero's orations with some ease , and make out with difficulty and labor the easiest sentences of the Greek Reader , and that was the whole of what was called his " preparation " for college ...
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... College . For mathematics , too , he had not the slightest taste . He humorously wrote to a fellow - student , soon after leaving college , that " all that he knew about conterminous arches or evanescent subtenses might be collected on ...
... College . For mathematics , too , he had not the slightest taste . He humorously wrote to a fellow - student , soon after leaving college , that " all that he knew about conterminous arches or evanescent subtenses might be collected on ...
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... college giving him ascendency at home , he employed it for the benefit of his brother in a manner which few sons would have dared , and no son ought to attempt . His father , now advanced in years , infirm , " an old man before his time ...
... college giving him ascendency at home , he employed it for the benefit of his brother in a manner which few sons would have dared , and no son ought to attempt . His father , now advanced in years , infirm , " an old man before his time ...
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... college : " You will natu rally inquire how I prosper in the article of cash ; finely , finely ! I came here in January with a horse , watch , etc. , and a few ras- cally counters in my pocket . Was soon obliged to sell my horse , and ...
... college : " You will natu rally inquire how I prosper in the article of cash ; finely , finely ! I came here in January with a horse , watch , etc. , and a few ras- cally counters in my pocket . Was soon obliged to sell my horse , and ...
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