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... Hundred Anecdotes of Public Men , as originally in- tended , 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 . One lesson I have ...
... Hundred Anecdotes of Public Men , as originally in- tended , 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 . One lesson I have ...
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... hundreds of ladies in the galleries , the feast superb , the wines delicious , and Mr. Webster did not rise to re- spond to the toast in his honor till late in the evening . Short- hand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift ...
... hundreds of ladies in the galleries , the feast superb , the wines delicious , and Mr. Webster did not rise to re- spond to the toast in his honor till late in the evening . Short- hand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift ...
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... 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 . Thomas Hart Benton died ...
... 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 . Thomas Hart Benton died ...
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... 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 power- B " Link'd with success , assumed and kept with ...
... 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 power- B " Link'd with success , assumed and kept with ...
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... hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty - eight hours , her master , a man living at Georgetown , D. C. , would be sure to sell her to strangers . The case was a terrible one . Sam was a fine fellow , and his distress was ...
... hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty - eight hours , her master , a man living at Georgetown , D. C. , would be sure to sell her to strangers . The case was a terrible one . Sam was a fine fellow , and his distress was ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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