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Сторінка 3
If the workmen have not all passed away , the work is at once finished and
destroyed , like the Russian ice - palace , laboriously built , then melted in the sun
. We cail now have the requisite sympathy with those late doctors of the body
politic ...
If the workmen have not all passed away , the work is at once finished and
destroyed , like the Russian ice - palace , laboriously built , then melted in the sun
. We cail now have the requisite sympathy with those late doctors of the body
politic ...
Сторінка 4
Passing through Newark once , he thoughtlessly ordered a carriage of a certain
pattern : the same evening the carriage was at the door of his hotel in New York ,
the gift of a few Newark friends . It was so everywhere and with everything .
Passing through Newark once , he thoughtlessly ordered a carriage of a certain
pattern : the same evening the carriage was at the door of his hotel in New York ,
the gift of a few Newark friends . It was so everywhere and with everything .
Сторінка 5
As there are pictures expressly designed to be looked at from a distance by great
numbers of people at once , - the scenery of a theatre , for example , so there are
men who appear formed by Nature to stand forth before multitudes , captivating ...
As there are pictures expressly designed to be looked at from a distance by great
numbers of people at once , - the scenery of a theatre , for example , so there are
men who appear formed by Nature to stand forth before multitudes , captivating ...
Сторінка 6
Clay was at once game - cock and domestic fowl . His gestures called to mind the
magnificently branching trees of his Kentucky forests , and his handwriting had
the neatness and delicacy of a female copyist . There was a careless , graceful ...
Clay was at once game - cock and domestic fowl . His gestures called to mind the
magnificently branching trees of his Kentucky forests , and his handwriting had
the neatness and delicacy of a female copyist . There was a careless , graceful ...
Сторінка 20
... and was immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive
majority of thirty - one . He was then thirty - four years of age . His election to the
Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 HENRY
CLAY .
... and was immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive
majority of thirty - one . He was then thirty - four years of age . His election to the
Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 HENRY
CLAY .
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Видавець | Ticknor and Fields, 1877 |
| Оригінал із | Гарвардський університет |
| Оцифровано | 24 жов. 2006 |
| Обсяг | 473 стор. |
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