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... gave to lawyers more importance and better thances of advancement than they possessed in the older States . Mr. Clay had two strings to his bow . Besides being a man of red tape and pigeon - holes , exact , methodical , and strictly ...
... gave to lawyers more importance and better thances of advancement than they possessed in the older States . Mr. Clay had two strings to his bow . Besides being a man of red tape and pigeon - holes , exact , methodical , and strictly ...
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... gave to quite commonplace wit and very questionable sentiment an amazing power to please and subdue . We are far from thinking that he was not a very able lawyer . Judge Story , we remember , before whom he argued a cause later in life ...
... gave to quite commonplace wit and very questionable sentiment an amazing power to please and subdue . We are far from thinking that he was not a very able lawyer . Judge Story , we remember , before whom he argued a cause later in life ...
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... commanding youth , with that magnificent voice of his , and large gesticulation , mount . ed the wagon that usually served as platform in the open - air eetings of Kentucky , and gave forth , in fervid 16 HENRY CLAY .
... commanding youth , with that magnificent voice of his , and large gesticulation , mount . ed the wagon that usually served as platform in the open - air eetings of Kentucky , and gave forth , in fervid 16 HENRY CLAY .
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... gave it ten times its natural force . He chewed tobacco and took snuff , -practices which lowered the tone of his health all his life . In familiar conversation he used language of the most Western description ; and he had a singularly ...
... gave it ten times its natural force . He chewed tobacco and took snuff , -practices which lowered the tone of his health all his life . In familiar conversation he used language of the most Western description ; and he had a singularly ...
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... immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive majority of thirty - one . He was ther thirty - four years of age . His election to the Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 HENRY CLAY .
... immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive majority of thirty - one . He was ther thirty - four years of age . His election to the Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 HENRY CLAY .
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