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... in a little log school - house , without windows or floor , one of a humming score of shoeless boys , where a good - natured , irritable , drinking English school- master taught him to read , write , and cipher as far as Practice .
... in a little log school - house , without windows or floor , one of a humming score of shoeless boys , where a good - natured , irritable , drinking English school- master taught him to read , write , and cipher as far as Practice .
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... Henry Clay began in 1798 , being then twenty - one years of age , to write a series of articles for a newspaper , advocating the gradual abolition of slavery in Kentucky . He afterwards spoke on that side at public meetings .
... Henry Clay began in 1798 , being then twenty - one years of age , to write a series of articles for a newspaper , advocating the gradual abolition of slavery in Kentucky . He afterwards spoke on that side at public meetings .
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Among his letters of 1843 there is one addressed to a friend who was about to write a pamphlet against the Abolitionists . Mr. Clay gave him an outline of what he thought the pamphlet ought to be . “ The great aim and object of your ...
Among his letters of 1843 there is one addressed to a friend who was about to write a pamphlet against the Abolitionists . Mr. Clay gave him an outline of what he thought the pamphlet ought to be . “ The great aim and object of your ...
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Mr. Colton was a very honest gentleman , and not wanting in ability ; but writing , as he did , in Mr. Clay's own house , he became , as it were , enchanted by his subject . He was enamored of Mr. Clay to such a degree that his pen ran ...
Mr. Colton was a very honest gentleman , and not wanting in ability ; but writing , as he did , in Mr. Clay's own house , he became , as it were , enchanted by his subject . He was enamored of Mr. Clay to such a degree that his pen ran ...
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... sometimes all moneyless together , all dunned the same time , and writing to one another for aid , — he was nevertheless as jovial a young fellow as any in New England . How merry and affectionate his letters to his young friends !
... sometimes all moneyless together , all dunned the same time , and writing to one another for aid , — he was nevertheless as jovial a young fellow as any in New England . How merry and affectionate his letters to his young friends !
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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