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From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate actors , whether statesmen or lawyers , soldiers or politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player ...
From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate actors , whether statesmen or lawyers , soldiers or politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player ...
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I walked editorial den and wrote a leader on the scene , so full of the emptiness of human ambition and the ingratitude of political parties . The following verse from Byron closed the article : “ As the struck eagle , stretched upon ...
I walked editorial den and wrote a leader on the scene , so full of the emptiness of human ambition and the ingratitude of political parties . The following verse from Byron closed the article : “ As the struck eagle , stretched upon ...
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I have always believed that he espoused the Confederacy , if not reluctantly , at least in the conviction that it would forever end his political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washington in 1851 as a ...
I have always believed that he espoused the Confederacy , if not reluctantly , at least in the conviction that it would forever end his political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washington in 1851 as a ...
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... it is only made worse by war , and an utter extinction of all those sentiments of common interest and feeling which might lead to a political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages .
... it is only made worse by war , and an utter extinction of all those sentiments of common interest and feeling which might lead to a political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages .
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Nothing is more remarkable in history than the fact that States and statesmen often undergo entire revulsions of political sentiment and conviction . To doubt the sincerity of these changes is to question the justice of every sort of ...
Nothing is more remarkable in history than the fact that States and statesmen often undergo entire revulsions of political sentiment and conviction . To doubt the sincerity of these changes is to question the justice of every sort of ...
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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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