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... learned , and good old man , one who has been greatly trusted and found worthy of trust , who knows the world by having long taken a leading part in its affairs , and has outlived illusions only to get a firmer footing in realities ...
... learned , and good old man , one who has been greatly trusted and found worthy of trust , who knows the world by having long taken a leading part in its affairs , and has outlived illusions only to get a firmer footing in realities ...
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... learned at it . His widowed mother , with her seven young chil- dren , her little farm , and two or three slaves , could do no more for him . Next , we see him a tall , awkward , slender stripling of thirteen , still barefoot , clad in ...
... learned at it . His widowed mother , with her seven young chil- dren , her little farm , and two or three slaves , could do no more for him . Next , we see him a tall , awkward , slender stripling of thirteen , still barefoot , clad in ...
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... learned and elaborate ; for it was the bent of the Chancellor's mind to trace the law to its sources in the ancient world , and fortify his posi tions by citations from Greek and Latin authors . The Greek passages were a plague to the ...
... learned and elaborate ; for it was the bent of the Chancellor's mind to trace the law to its sources in the ancient world , and fortify his posi tions by citations from Greek and Latin authors . The Greek passages were a plague to the ...
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... learned judge , Henry Clay might have become a man of learning . George Wythe was a " scholar " in the ancient acceptation of the word . The whole education of his youth consisted in his acquir- ing the Latin language , which his mother ...
... learned judge , Henry Clay might have become a man of learning . George Wythe was a " scholar " in the ancient acceptation of the word . The whole education of his youth consisted in his acquir- ing the Latin language , which his mother ...
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... learned very much of the art of managing men . Franklin , we think , aided this impetuous and exaggerating spirit to acquire his habitual moderation of statement , and that sleepless courtesy which , in his keenest encounters ...
... learned very much of the art of managing men . Franklin , we think , aided this impetuous and exaggerating spirit to acquire his habitual moderation of statement , and that sleepless courtesy which , in his keenest encounters ...
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