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their recollections they are getting old ; but you have taught me in our long and unbroken devotion to each other that nothing keeps the heart so young and so fresh as the habit of reviving the best deeds of our fellow - creatures and ...
their recollections they are getting old ; but you have taught me in our long and unbroken devotion to each other that nothing keeps the heart so young and so fresh as the habit of reviving the best deeds of our fellow - creatures and ...
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The brilliant effort of Rufus Choate to make him the candidate in the Baltimore Whig National Convention , though ineffectual to prevent the foreordained selection of the brave but vain - glorious Scott , had gone to the hearts of the ...
The brilliant effort of Rufus Choate to make him the candidate in the Baltimore Whig National Convention , though ineffectual to prevent the foreordained selection of the brave but vain - glorious Scott , had gone to the hearts of the ...
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... shaft that quivered in his heart , Keen were his pangs , but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest , Drank the last life - blood of his bleeding breast .
... shaft that quivered in his heart , Keen were his pangs , but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest , Drank the last life - blood of his bleeding breast .
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... and may be of incalculable value in the crystallization of history . I remember a dinner - party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no diary to keep fresh in my heart ...
... and may be of incalculable value in the crystallization of history . I remember a dinner - party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no diary to keep fresh in my heart ...
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I live about a mile out of town , and rarely get back to my quiet home till evening ; and the first to welcome me at the garden - gate are my little girl Mary and my bright - eyed son Willie — the joy of my heart , the stars of my life ...
I live about a mile out of town , and rarely get back to my quiet home till evening ; and the first to welcome me at the garden - gate are my little girl Mary and my bright - eyed son Willie — the joy of my heart , the stars of my life ...
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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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