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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
it then ...
... 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
it then ...
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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
to ...
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
to ...
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... thought I should be if I could make one hundred pounds a year , Virginia
money ; and with what delight I received my first fifteen - shilling fee . My hopes
were more than realized . I immediately rushed into a successful and lucrative
practice .
... thought I should be if I could make one hundred pounds a year , Virginia
money ; and with what delight I received my first fifteen - shilling fee . My hopes
were more than realized . I immediately rushed into a successful and lucrative
practice .
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Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance , 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 ...
Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance , 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 ...
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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 . ' ” This brief ...
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 . ' ” This brief ...
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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