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... reader needs to be informed that Mr. Clay and his friends were able to decide the election , and that they decided it in favor of Mr. Adams . We believe that Mr. Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think , to have ...
... reader needs to be informed that Mr. Clay and his friends were able to decide the election , and that they decided it in favor of Mr. Adams . We believe that Mr. Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think , to have ...
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... reader . Unlettered as he was , he greatly enjoyed the more lofty compositions of poets and orators ; and his large , sonorous voice enabled him to read them with fine effect . His sons read in his manner , even to his rustic ...
... reader . Unlettered as he was , he greatly enjoyed the more lofty compositions of poets and orators ; and his large , sonorous voice enabled him to read them with fine effect . His sons read in his manner , even to his rustic ...
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... Readers have , doubtless , remarked , in Mr. Webster's oration upon Adams and Jefferson , how the stress of the eulogy falls upon Adams , while cold and scant jus- tice is meted out to the greatest and wisest of our statesmen . It was ...
... Readers have , doubtless , remarked , in Mr. Webster's oration upon Adams and Jefferson , how the stress of the eulogy falls upon Adams , while cold and scant jus- tice is meted out to the greatest and wisest of our statesmen . It was ...
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... reading . The rude schools which he trudged two or three miles in the winter every day to attend , taught him scarcely any- thing . His father's saw - mill , he used to say , was the rea school of his youth . When he had set the saw and ...
... reading . The rude schools which he trudged two or three miles in the winter every day to attend , taught him scarcely any- thing . His father's saw - mill , he used to say , was the rea school of his youth . When he had set the saw and ...
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... Reader , and that was the whole of what was called his " preparation " for college . In June , 1797 , he did not know the Greek alphabet ; in August of the same year he was admitted to the Freshman Class of Dartmouth on engaging to ...
... Reader , and that was the whole of what was called his " preparation " for college . In June , 1797 , he did not know the Greek alphabet ; in August of the same year he was admitted to the Freshman Class of Dartmouth on engaging to ...
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