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His widowed mother , with her seven young children , her little farm , and two or three slaves , could do no more for him . Next , we see him a tall , awkward , slender stripling of thirteen , still barefoot , clad in homespun butternut ...
His widowed mother , with her seven young children , her little farm , and two or three slaves , could do no more for him . Next , we see him a tall , awkward , slender stripling of thirteen , still barefoot , clad in homespun butternut ...
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Richmond , the town of the young Republic that had most in it of the metropolitan , proved to this aspiring youth as true a University as the printing - office in old Boston was to Benjamin Franklin ; for he found in it the culture best ...
Richmond , the town of the young Republic that had most in it of the metropolitan , proved to this aspiring youth as true a University as the printing - office in old Boston was to Benjamin Franklin ; for he found in it the culture best ...
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His young passages were a plague to the copyist , who knew not the alphaber of that language , but copied it , so to speak , by rote . Here we have another proof that , no matter what a man's opportunities are , he only learns what is ...
His young passages were a plague to the copyist , who knew not the alphaber of that language , but copied it , so to speak , by rote . Here we have another proof that , no matter what a man's opportunities are , he only learns what is ...
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Young Virginiansdid not need to look beyond the sea in order to learn that the orator was the man most in request in the dawn of freedom . Chatham , Burke , Fox , Sheridan , and Pitt were inconceivably imposing names at that day ...
Young Virginiansdid not need to look beyond the sea in order to learn that the orator was the man most in request in the dawn of freedom . Chatham , Burke , Fox , Sheridan , and Pitt were inconceivably imposing names at that day ...
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Obsolete as many of his speeches are , from the transient nature of the topics of which they treat , they may still be studied with profit by young orators and old politicians as examples of parliamentary politeness .
Obsolete as many of his speeches are , from the transient nature of the topics of which they treat , they may still be studied with profit by young orators and old politicians as examples of parliamentary politeness .
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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