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... manner , and the grace with which he can make an apology , that he is a better actor than Soulé ! " I never met Daniel Webster , as was natural on account of my connection with the Democratic party , but I often recall two incidents in ...
... manner , and the grace with which he can make an apology , that he is a better actor than Soulé ! " I never met Daniel Webster , as was natural on account of my connection with the Democratic party , but I often recall two incidents in ...
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... manner I shall never forget . His voice , al- ways clear and sonorous , rolled with deeper volume over the crowd . There was no bitterness , but an inexpressible sadness in his words , and when he bade them good - night , and said he ...
... manner I shall never forget . His voice , al- ways clear and sonorous , rolled with deeper volume over the crowd . There was no bitterness , but an inexpressible sadness in his words , and when he bade them good - night , and said he ...
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... manners and dazzling wit of my abolition friend . He gradually monopolized their whole attention by his comments on books and men , and his full knowledge of the resources of their own section . At last one of them said , " Pray ...
... manners and dazzling wit of my abolition friend . He gradually monopolized their whole attention by his comments on books and men , and his full knowledge of the resources of their own section . At last one of them said , " Pray ...
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... manner in which Dr. Elder told this incident , or the effect produced upon the Southern men around him . They listened with profound and breathless interest , and more than one with a pale cheek and moistened eye ; and though they did ...
... manner in which Dr. Elder told this incident , or the effect produced upon the Southern men around him . They listened with profound and breathless interest , and more than one with a pale cheek and moistened eye ; and though they did ...
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... manners of a Chesterfield . He took the right side in a commu- nity tainted with wrong views . It would have been far easier for him to have followed his intimate friends Breckinridge , Hawkins , and Preston into the Confederate service ...
... manners of a Chesterfield . He took the right side in a commu- nity tainted with wrong views . It would have been far easier for him to have followed his intimate friends Breckinridge , Hawkins , and Preston into the Confederate service ...
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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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