Famous Americans of Recent TimesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 473 стор. |
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... readers do not need to be reminded that popularity the most intense is not a proof of merit . The two most mischievous men this country has ever produced were extremely popular , - one in a State , the other in every State , and both ...
... readers do not need to be reminded that popularity the most intense is not a proof of merit . The two most mischievous men this country has ever produced were extremely popular , - one in a State , the other in every State , and both ...
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... reader . It rests on better authority than " Campaign Lives , " that , while his fellow- clerks went abroad in the evening in search of pleasure , this lad stayed at home with his books . It is a pleasure also to know that he had not a ...
... reader . It rests on better authority than " Campaign Lives , " that , while his fellow- clerks went abroad in the evening in search of pleasure , this lad stayed at home with his books . It is a pleasure also to know that he had not a ...
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... reading daily in a book of history or science , and declaiming the substance of what he had read in some solitary place , —a cornfield , the forest , a barn , with only oxen and horses for auditors . " It is , " said he , " to this ...
... reading daily in a book of history or science , and declaiming the substance of what he had read in some solitary place , —a cornfield , the forest , a barn , with only oxen and horses for auditors . " It is , " said he , " to this ...
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... reader , were the sentences following spoken by Henry Clay after the war of 1812 at the Federalists who had opposed that war , or by Demosthenes against the degenerate Greeks who favored the designs of Philip ? " From first to last I ...
... reader , were the sentences following spoken by Henry Clay after the war of 1812 at the Federalists who had opposed that war , or by Demosthenes against the degenerate Greeks who favored the designs of Philip ? " From first to last I ...
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... reading over his speeches of this period , we are ready to exclaim , " Ah ! Mr. Clay , if you had played whist a little less , and studied history and statesmanship a great deal more , you would have avoided some errors ! " A trifling ...
... reading over his speeches of this period , we are ready to exclaim , " Ah ! Mr. Clay , if you had played whist a little less , and studied history and statesmanship a great deal more , you would have avoided some errors ! " A trifling ...
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