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Tayler Lewis , Professor of Greek in Union College , distinguished no less as an adroit and energetic controversialist , than as a classical scholar of consummate accomplishments . An incident , showing his standing in the college ...
Tayler Lewis , Professor of Greek in Union College , distinguished no less as an adroit and energetic controversialist , than as a classical scholar of consummate accomplishments . An incident , showing his standing in the college ...
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The legal career of Mr. Seward is illustrated with no less justice than vigor in the following sketch of his early professional life , written several years since for one of the periodicals of the day . “ The practice of the law in the ...
The legal career of Mr. Seward is illustrated with no less justice than vigor in the following sketch of his early professional life , written several years since for one of the periodicals of the day . “ The practice of the law in the ...
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Relying upon the soundness of his principles , he boldly maintained the conflict against a majority so overwhelming , that to a less ardent temperament than his own , opposition would have seemed hopeless . A resolution was brought into ...
Relying upon the soundness of his principles , he boldly maintained the conflict against a majority so overwhelming , that to a less ardent temperament than his own , opposition would have seemed hopeless . A resolution was brought into ...
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During this period he prepared several essays , which display genuine literary merit , no less than a spirit of enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship . Mr. Seward received an invitation to deliver a discourse on Education + at ...
During this period he prepared several essays , which display genuine literary merit , no less than a spirit of enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship . Mr. Seward received an invitation to deliver a discourse on Education + at ...
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disabilities under which foreigners labored , were with more or less reluctance , ultimately adopted . * The city of New York was , at that time just beginning to be crowded with immigrants who poured into the country from foreign lands ...
disabilities under which foreigners labored , were with more or less reluctance , ultimately adopted . * The city of New York was , at that time just beginning to be crowded with immigrants who poured into the country from foreign lands ...
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