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Our readers do not need to be reminded that popularity the most intense is not a
proof of merit . The two most mischievous men this country has ever produced
were extremely popular , — one in a State , the other in every State , — and both
for ...
Our readers do not need to be reminded that popularity the most intense is not a
proof of merit . The two most mischievous men this country has ever produced
were extremely popular , — one in a State , the other in every State , — and both
for ...
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Of his first service little is known except the immense fact that he was a most
diligent reader . It rests on better authority than “ Campaign Lives , ” that , while
his fellowclerks went abroad in the evening in search of pleasure , this lad stayed
at ...
Of his first service little is known except the immense fact that he was a most
diligent reader . It rests on better authority than “ Campaign Lives , ” that , while
his fellowclerks went abroad in the evening in search of pleasure , this lad stayed
at ...
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Tell us , gentle reader , were the sentences following spoken by Henry Clay after
the war of 1812 at the Federalists who had opposed that war , or by
Demosthenes against the degenerate Greeks who favored the designs of Philip ?
“ From first ...
Tell us , gentle reader , were the sentences following spoken by Henry Clay after
the war of 1812 at the Federalists who had opposed that war , or by
Demosthenes against the degenerate Greeks who favored the designs of Philip ?
“ From first ...
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No reader needs to be informed that Mr . Clay and his friends were able to decide
the election , and that they decided it in favor of Mr . Adams . We believe that Mr .
Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think , to have been ...
No reader needs to be informed that Mr . Clay and his friends were able to decide
the election , and that they decided it in favor of Mr . Adams . We believe that Mr .
Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think , to have been ...
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He possessed one beautiful accomplishment : he was a grand reader .
Unlettered as he was , he greatly enjoyed the more lofty compositions of poets
and orators ; and his large , sonorous voice enabled him to read them with fine
effect .
He possessed one beautiful accomplishment : he was a grand reader .
Unlettered as he was , he greatly enjoyed the more lofty compositions of poets
and orators ; and his large , sonorous voice enabled him to read them with fine
effect .
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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