Famous Americans of Recent TimesHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 473 стор. |
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... remained to be played . He discounte- nanced high stakes ; and we believe he never , after 1806 , played for more than five dollars " a corner . " These , we know , were the stakes at Ghent , where he played whist for many months with ...
... remained to be played . He discounte- nanced high stakes ; and we believe he never , after 1806 , played for more than five dollars " a corner . " These , we know , were the stakes at Ghent , where he played whist for many months with ...
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... remained his friends long after he had retired . His Wednesday dinners and his pleasant evening receptions were remembered for many years . How far he sympathized with Mr. Adams's extravagant dreams of a system of national works that ...
... remained his friends long after he had retired . His Wednesday dinners and his pleasant evening receptions were remembered for many years . How far he sympathized with Mr. Adams's extravagant dreams of a system of national works that ...
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... remained for men but to cease the agitation of the subject . His first efforts , as his last , were directed to the silencing of both parties , but most especially the Abolition- ists , whose character and aims he misconceived . With ...
... remained for men but to cease the agitation of the subject . His first efforts , as his last , were directed to the silencing of both parties , but most especially the Abolition- ists , whose character and aims he misconceived . With ...
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... remained there to serve his country ; nor of his country did he ever think the less , or serve her less zealously , because she denied him the honor he coveted for thirty years . We cannot say this of Calhoun . He degenerated fright ...
... remained there to serve his country ; nor of his country did he ever think the less , or serve her less zealously , because she denied him the honor he coveted for thirty years . We cannot say this of Calhoun . He degenerated fright ...
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... remained ; and the last was happy if he found rags enough to justify his appearance in the chapel . The relator of this pleasant reminiscence adds , that he was once the possessor of an eminently respectable beaver hat , a costly ...
... remained ; and the last was happy if he found rags enough to justify his appearance in the chapel . The relator of this pleasant reminiscence adds , that he was once the possessor of an eminently respectable beaver hat , a costly ...
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