Famous Americans of Recent TimesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 473 стор. |
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... Kentucky forests , and his handwriting had the neatness and delicacy of a female copyist . There was a careless , graceful ease in his movements and attitudes , like those of an Indian chief ; but he was an exact man of business , who ...
... Kentucky forests , and his handwriting had the neatness and delicacy of a female copyist . There was a careless , graceful ease in his movements and attitudes , like those of an Indian chief ; but he was an exact man of business , who ...
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... Kentucky and the manufacturers of New England . It used to be accounted a merit in a man to rise to high station from humble beginnings ; but we now perceive that humble beginnings are favorable to the development of that force of ...
... Kentucky and the manufacturers of New England . It used to be accounted a merit in a man to rise to high station from humble beginnings ; but we now perceive that humble beginnings are favorable to the development of that force of ...
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... Kentucky , which Boone explored in 1770 , was a part of Virginia when Clay was a child and only became a State in 1792 , when first he began to copy Chancellor Wythe's decisions . The first white family settled in it in 1775 ; but when ...
... Kentucky , which Boone explored in 1770 , was a part of Virginia when Clay was a child and only became a State in 1792 , when first he began to copy Chancellor Wythe's decisions . The first white family settled in it in 1775 ; but when ...
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... Kentucky he was a brilliant , successful practitioner , such as Kentucky wanted and could appreciate . In a very few years he was the possessor of a fine estate near Lex- ington , and to the single slave who came to him as his share of ...
... Kentucky he was a brilliant , successful practitioner , such as Kentucky wanted and could appreciate . In a very few years he was the possessor of a fine estate near Lex- ington , and to the single slave who came to him as his share of ...
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... Kentucky from that curse . The State Constitution was to be remodelled in 1799. Fresh from the society of Chancellor Wythe , an abolitionist who had set free his own slaves , fresh from Richmond , where every man of note , from ...
... Kentucky from that curse . The State Constitution was to be remodelled in 1799. Fresh from the society of Chancellor Wythe , an abolitionist who had set free his own slaves , fresh from Richmond , where every man of note , from ...
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