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... when the national debt was within seven years of being paid off ; but precisely
then it was that both divisions of the Democratic party - one under Mr . Van Buren
, the other under Mr . Clay — were running a kind of tariff race , neck and neck ...
... when the national debt was within seven years of being paid off ; but precisely
then it was that both divisions of the Democratic party - one under Mr . Van Buren
, the other under Mr . Clay — were running a kind of tariff race , neck and neck ...
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At home , and in a good mood , he was reputed to be as entertaining a man as
New England ever held , - a gambolling , jocund leviathan out on the sea - shore
, and in the library overflowing with every kind of knowledge that can be acquired
...
At home , and in a good mood , he was reputed to be as entertaining a man as
New England ever held , - a gambolling , jocund leviathan out on the sea - shore
, and in the library overflowing with every kind of knowledge that can be acquired
...
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The reader will notice the similarity between one part of it and the famous
passage in the Bunker Hill oration , begin ning “ Venerable men , ” addressed to
the survivors of the Revo lution . “ Thus , friends and citizens , did the kind hand of
...
The reader will notice the similarity between one part of it and the famous
passage in the Bunker Hill oration , begin ning “ Venerable men , ” addressed to
the survivors of the Revo lution . “ Thus , friends and citizens , did the kind hand of
...
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Pinched by poverty , as he tells us , till his very bones ached , eking out his
income by a kind of labor that he always loathed ( copying deeds ) , his shoes
letting in , not water merely , but “ pebbles and stones , ” — father , brother , and
himself ...
Pinched by poverty , as he tells us , till his very bones ached , eking out his
income by a kind of labor that he always loathed ( copying deeds ) , his shoes
letting in , not water merely , but “ pebbles and stones , ” — father , brother , and
himself ...
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This does not accord with what is usually observed in our churches , where
sermons of the kind which Mr . Webster extolled dispose many persons to sleep ,
though not to muse . In the same unquestioning manner , he imbibed his father ' s
...
This does not accord with what is usually observed in our churches , where
sermons of the kind which Mr . Webster extolled dispose many persons to sleep ,
though not to muse . In the same unquestioning manner , he imbibed his father ' s
...
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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