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Instead of One Hundred Anecdotes of Public Men , as originally intended , you will find interwoven into these pages four times as many references to the characters who figured in the past and will be remembered in the future .
Instead of One Hundred Anecdotes of Public Men , as originally intended , you will find interwoven into these pages four times as many references to the characters who figured in the past and will be remembered in the future .
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The company was numerous , including hundreds of ladies in the galleries , the feast superb , the wines delicious , and Mr. Webster did not rise to respond to the toast in his honor till late in the evening . Shorthand reporting was not ...
The company was numerous , including hundreds of ladies in the galleries , the feast superb , the wines delicious , and Mr. Webster did not rise to respond to the toast in his honor till late in the evening . Shorthand reporting was not ...
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He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to realize his mistake ; but he passed off before the war that resulted from the absence of a little courage to maintain the most solemn pledge ever made to a confiding people .
He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to realize his mistake ; but he passed off before the war that resulted from the absence of a little courage to maintain the most solemn pledge ever made to a confiding people .
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It may also have the effect of arousing the two hundred thousand men with pure skins in South Carolina , who are now degraded and despised by thirty thousand aristocratic slaveholders . It may teach them to demand what is the powerB ...
It may also have the effect of arousing the two hundred thousand men with pure skins in South Carolina , who are now degraded and despised by thirty thousand aristocratic slaveholders . It may teach them to demand what is the powerB ...
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lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty ...
lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty ...
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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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