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... persons in a small room can learn to move or instruct two thousand in a large one . - That Henry Clay cultivated his oratorical talent in Rich- mond , we have his own explicit testimony . He told a class of law students once that he ...
... persons in a small room can learn to move or instruct two thousand in a large one . - That Henry Clay cultivated his oratorical talent in Rich- mond , we have his own explicit testimony . He told a class of law students once that he ...
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... person at the time , that he not only wished to keep the Bank question out of the Presidential campaign of 1832 , but that he was willing to consent , on very easy conditions , to a recharter .. It was Mr. Clay's commanding influence ...
... person at the time , that he not only wished to keep the Bank question out of the Presidential campaign of 1832 , but that he was willing to consent , on very easy conditions , to a recharter .. It was Mr. Clay's commanding influence ...
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... person who influenced his generation long and powerfully . Usually it is only the last of these questions which mortals can answer with any certainty ; but from the answer to that one we infer the answers to all the others . As it is ...
... person who influenced his generation long and powerfully . Usually it is only the last of these questions which mortals can answer with any certainty ; but from the answer to that one we infer the answers to all the others . As it is ...
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... person lived among us , he was blindly worshipped by many , blindly hated by some , calmly considered by very few . To this hour he is a great in- fluence in the United States . Perhaps , with the abundant ma- terial now accessible , it ...
... person lived among us , he was blindly worshipped by many , blindly hated by some , calmly considered by very few . To this hour he is a great in- fluence in the United States . Perhaps , with the abundant ma- terial now accessible , it ...
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... persons to sleep , though not to muse . In the same unquestioning manner , he imbibed his father's political prejudices . We hear this young Federalist call the Republican party " the Jacobins , " just as the reactionists and tories of ...
... persons to sleep , though not to muse . In the same unquestioning manner , he imbibed his father's political prejudices . We hear this young Federalist call the Republican party " the Jacobins , " just as the reactionists and tories of ...
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