Famous Americans of Recent TimesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 473 стор. |
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... favor of the Declaration of Indepen- dence ? There were other speakers then in Virginia who would have had to this day a world - wide fame if they had spoken where the world could hear them . The tendency now is to undervalue oratory ...
... favor of the Declaration of Indepen- dence ? There were other speakers then in Virginia who would have had to this day a world - wide fame if they had spoken where the world could hear them . The tendency now is to undervalue oratory ...
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... favor of building a bridge over the Potomac ; one of his first acts , to propose an appropriation of lands for a canal round the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville ; and soon he brought forward a resolution directing the Secretary of the ...
... favor of building a bridge over the Potomac ; one of his first acts , to propose an appropriation of lands for a canal round the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville ; and soon he brought forward a resolution directing the Secretary of the ...
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... favor , was by no means stable . His offence was that he voted for the compensation bill of 1816 , which merely changed the pay of members of Congress from the pittance of six dollars a day to the pittance of fifteen hun- dred dollars a ...
... favor , was by no means stable . His offence was that he voted for the compensation bill of 1816 , which merely changed the pay of members of Congress from the pittance of six dollars a day to the pittance of fifteen hun- dred dollars a ...
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... favor of Mr. Adams . We believe that Mr. Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think , to have been willing to gratify the plurality of his fellow- citizens , who had voted for General Jackson . His motives we fully ...
... favor of Mr. Adams . We believe that Mr. Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think , to have been willing to gratify the plurality of his fellow- citizens , who had voted for General Jackson . His motives we fully ...
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... favor of Jackson by lending a dexterous hand in carrying Kentucky against his benefactor . Francis Blair , editor of the Globe , had also been the particular friend and correspondent of Mr. Clay , but had turned against him . From the ...
... favor of Jackson by lending a dexterous hand in carrying Kentucky against his benefactor . Francis Blair , editor of the Globe , had also been the particular friend and correspondent of Mr. Clay , but had turned against him . From the ...
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