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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ?
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 ?
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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