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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 ...
Сторінка 58
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
...
Сторінка 66
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
...
Сторінка 69
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 ...
Сторінка 72
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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