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Shorthand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift , accurate , and magical science ; and I knew the Whig papers , which resolved to print the great man's speech entire , would be delayed till long past their usual hour next ...
Shorthand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift , accurate , and magical science ; and I knew the Whig papers , which resolved to print the great man's speech entire , would be delayed till long past their usual hour next ...
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I got through the struggle triumphantly , but I can never forget the act of the man who , in the darkest hour , extended his helping hand . Nor did his magnanimity stop here . Many of his adherents believed I ought to have supported him ...
I got through the struggle triumphantly , but I can never forget the act of the man who , in the darkest hour , extended his helping hand . Nor did his magnanimity stop here . Many of his adherents believed I ought to have supported him ...
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Reared to scholarship , diplomacy , and statecraft , he began it with his youth , and to the final hour , when he exclaimed , “ This is the last of earth , " observed the custom . The rare summary of the second President of a really ...
Reared to scholarship , diplomacy , and statecraft , he began it with his youth , and to the final hour , when he exclaimed , “ This is the last of earth , " observed the custom . The rare summary of the second President of a really ...
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But I must emphasize the suggestion that our young men and young women can employ one or two hours every day no more agreeably and usefully than by keeping a journal . Begun after school - time while they are boys and girls ...
But I must emphasize the suggestion that our young men and young women can employ one or two hours every day no more agreeably and usefully than by keeping a journal . Begun after school - time while they are boys and girls ...
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I never spent an hour with him which did not furnish me with new ideas . He grasped and understood most questions thoroughly . When he read was always a mystery . Social to a degree , dining out almost daily when not entertaining his ...
I never spent an hour with him which did not furnish me with new ideas . He grasped and understood most questions thoroughly . When he read was always a mystery . Social to a degree , dining out almost daily when not entertaining his ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1877 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2015 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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