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Suppose , when I get home to - morrow , I meet my wife , instead of my children , at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay ...
Suppose , when I get home to - morrow , I meet my wife , instead of my children , at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay ...
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Accordingly The Pennsylvanian was called upon to review his positions , which was done in three articles that bore , he thought , distinct official ear - marks . Indignant at my temerity , he addressed me a curt note , demanding the ...
Accordingly The Pennsylvanian was called upon to review his positions , which was done in three articles that bore , he thought , distinct official ear - marks . Indignant at my temerity , he addressed me a curt note , demanding the ...
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The disappointment was grievous , but it called out all his better nature . He devoted himself to his studies and his duties with renewed assiduity . He always lived like a gentleman . Generous to a fault , he delighted to have his ...
The disappointment was grievous , but it called out all his better nature . He devoted himself to his studies and his duties with renewed assiduity . He always lived like a gentleman . Generous to a fault , he delighted to have his ...
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A consciousness of superiority of another sort was his answer to John Hickman , who called as Stevens laid on his bed , when he felt the grip of the grim messenger fastening on him . Hickman told the old man he was looking well .
A consciousness of superiority of another sort was his answer to John Hickman , who called as Stevens laid on his bed , when he felt the grip of the grim messenger fastening on him . Hickman told the old man he was looking well .
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lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty ...
lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1873 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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