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... exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment , the amazement and despair , at the result of that day's fatal work ? Fatal we thought ...
... exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment , the amazement and despair , at the result of that day's fatal work ? Fatal we thought ...
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He came of sound English stock , of a family who would not have regarded drunkenness and debauchery as “ sowing wild oats , ” but recoiled from the thought of them with horror . Clay was far from being a saint ; but it is our privilege ...
He came of sound English stock , of a family who would not have regarded drunkenness and debauchery as “ sowing wild oats , ” but recoiled from the thought of them with horror . Clay was far from being a saint ; but it is our privilege ...
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He took board , not knowing where the money was to come from to pay for it . There were already several lawyers of repute in the place . “ I remember , ” said Mr. Clay , forty - five years after , “ how comfortable I thought ...
He took board , not knowing where the money was to come from to pay for it . There were already several lawyers of repute in the place . “ I remember , ” said Mr. Clay , forty - five years after , “ how comfortable I thought ...
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... and application to the great purposes of the public education , roads , rivers , canals , and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of Federal powers .
... and application to the great purposes of the public education , roads , rivers , canals , and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of Federal powers .
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The Frenchman listened to her with perfect patience , and when she had ceased said to her , with ineffable politeness , · Madam , it would give my master , the Emperor , infinite pain if he knew how hardly you thought of him .
The Frenchman listened to her with perfect patience , and when she had ceased said to her , with ineffable politeness , · Madam , it would give my master , the Emperor , infinite pain if he knew how hardly you thought of him .
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