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... leave room for such instructive details . We do not even know the books from which he declaimed . Plutarch's Lives were fa- vorite reading with him , we accidentally learn ; and his speeches contain evidence that he was powerfully ...
... leave room for such instructive details . We do not even know the books from which he declaimed . Plutarch's Lives were fa- vorite reading with him , we accidentally learn ; and his speeches contain evidence that he was powerfully ...
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... leave Congress for the sole purpose of taking care of his shattered fortune . He felt the importance of this subject in a national point of view . He wrote in 1817 to a friend : " Short as has been my service in the public councils , I ...
... leave Congress for the sole purpose of taking care of his shattered fortune . He felt the importance of this subject in a national point of view . He wrote in 1817 to a friend : " Short as has been my service in the public councils , I ...
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... leaving for home , were entirely admirable . Andrew Jackson , he said , had wronged him , but he was now the Chief Magistrate of his country , and , as such , he should be treated with decorum , and his public acts judged with candcr ...
... leaving for home , were entirely admirable . Andrew Jackson , he said , had wronged him , but he was now the Chief Magistrate of his country , and , as such , he should be treated with decorum , and his public acts judged with candcr ...
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... leaving college , that " all that he knew about conterminous arches or evanescent subtenses might be collected on the pupil of a gnat's eye without making him wink . " At college , in fact , he was simply an omnivorous reader , studying ...
... leaving college , that " all that he knew about conterminous arches or evanescent subtenses might be collected on the pupil of a gnat's eye without making him wink . " At college , in fact , he was simply an omnivorous reader , studying ...
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... leaving 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 ...
... leaving 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 ...
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