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... John Quincy Adams is the best monument of his stupendous industry . He kept it during all the working years of his working life . Reared to scholarship , diplomacy , and statecraft , he began it with his youth , and to the final hour ...
... John Quincy Adams is the best monument of his stupendous industry . He kept it during all the working years of his working life . Reared to scholarship , diplomacy , and statecraft , he began it with his youth , and to the final hour ...
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John Wien Forney. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE . 47 An amusing episode followed the debate . Breckinridge thought it was Sumner who answered Baker's interrogatory ... QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. ...
John Wien Forney. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE . 47 An amusing episode followed the debate . Breckinridge thought it was Sumner who answered Baker's interrogatory ... QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. ...
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John Wien Forney. X. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from 1831 - three years after he left the Presidency - to the 23d of February , 1848 , when he fell from his seat in the House , and died literally in harness . The ...
John Wien Forney. X. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from 1831 - three years after he left the Presidency - to the 23d of February , 1848 , when he fell from his seat in the House , and died literally in harness . The ...
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John Wien Forney. familiar to a degree . Their tastes were similar . They loved their friends without hating their ... Adams . I shall never forget that sweet and odor- ous 13th of May , 1846. Nowhere , as it seems to me , is there an ...
John Wien Forney. familiar to a degree . Their tastes were similar . They loved their friends without hating their ... Adams . I shall never forget that sweet and odor- ous 13th of May , 1846. Nowhere , as it seems to me , is there an ...
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... ADAMS . " I wrote that dispatch as Secretary of State , and endeavored to make out the best case I could for my own ... John Quincy Adams retreating before anybody . He seemed to feel as if he had fallen into a trap . His solicitude to ...
... ADAMS . " I wrote that dispatch as Secretary of State , and endeavored to make out the best case I could for my own ... John Quincy Adams retreating before anybody . He seemed to feel as if he had fallen into a trap . His solicitude to ...
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