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... twenty - three barrels of salt . In his old age , when his fine estate , through the misfortunes of his sons , was burdened with mortgages to the amount of thirty thousand dol- lars , and other large debts weighed heavily upon his soul ...
... twenty - three barrels of salt . In his old age , when his fine estate , through the misfortunes of his sons , was burdened with mortgages to the amount of thirty thousand dol- lars , and other large debts weighed heavily upon his soul ...
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... twenty - eight years a candidate for the Presidency , cultivated his popularity . Without ever being a hypocrite , he was habitually an actor ; but the part which he enacted was Henry Clay exag-- gerated . He was naturally a most ...
... twenty - eight years a candidate for the Presidency , cultivated his popularity . Without ever being a hypocrite , he was habitually an actor ; but the part which he enacted was Henry Clay exag-- gerated . He was naturally a most ...
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... twenty years of age . Debating - society fame and drawing - room popular- ity do not , in an old commonwealth like Virginia , bring practice to a lawyer of twenty . But , as a HENRY CLAY . 13.
... twenty years of age . Debating - society fame and drawing - room popular- ity do not , in an old commonwealth like Virginia , bring practice to a lawyer of twenty . But , as a HENRY CLAY . 13.
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... twenty - two years after , it contained a white population of nearly two hundred 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 ...
... twenty - two years after , it contained a white population of nearly two hundred 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 ...
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... twenty - one years of age , to write a series of articles for a newspaper , advocating the gradual aboli- tion of slavery in Kentucky . He afterwards spoke on that side at public meetings . Young as he was , he took the lead of the ...
... twenty - one years of age , to write a series of articles for a newspaper , advocating the gradual aboli- tion of slavery in Kentucky . He afterwards spoke on that side at public meetings . Young as he was , he took the lead of the ...
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