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... thousand dol- lars , and other large debts weighed heavily upon his soul , and he feared to be compelled to sell the home of fifty years and seek a strange abode , a few old friends secretly raised the needful sum , secretly paid the ...
... thousand dol- lars , and other large debts weighed heavily upon his soul , and he feared to be compelled to sell the home of fifty years and seek a strange abode , a few old friends secretly raised the needful sum , secretly paid the ...
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... 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 owed his success in life to a habit early formed , and for ...
... 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 owed his success in life to a habit early formed , and for ...
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... thousand . His mother , with five of her children and a second husband , had gone thither five years before . In 1797 Henry Clay removed to Lexington , the new State's oldest town and capital , though then containing , it is said , but ...
... thousand . His mother , with five of her children and a second husband , had gone thither five years before . In 1797 Henry Clay removed to Lexington , the new State's oldest town and capital , though then containing , it is said , but ...
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... thousand dollars ' worth of government bonds ? Calhoun precipitated the country into a war with Mex- ico ; but what did he gain by it but new bitterness of disap- pointment , while the winner of three little battles was elected ...
... thousand dollars ' worth of government bonds ? Calhoun precipitated the country into a war with Mex- ico ; but what did he gain by it but new bitterness of disap- pointment , while the winner of three little battles was elected ...
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... thousand armed men have since sprung up from those harmless - looking dragon's teeth , so recklessly sown in the hot Southern soil . Of the three men whom we have named , Daniel Webster was incomparably the most richly endowed by nature ...
... thousand armed men have since sprung up from those harmless - looking dragon's teeth , so recklessly sown in the hot Southern soil . Of the three men whom we have named , Daniel Webster was incomparably the most richly endowed by nature ...
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