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... once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate public officer I ever knew . As President he was a model of high breeding . Receptive , cordial , hospitable to his political friends , he delighted to welcome his political ...
... once the kindest , most courteous , and most considerate public officer I ever knew . As President he was a model of high breeding . Receptive , cordial , hospitable to his political friends , he delighted to welcome his political ...
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... once monitor and guide to themselves , and may be of incalculable value in the crystalliza- tion of history . I remember a dinner - party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no ...
... once monitor and guide to themselves , and may be of incalculable value in the crystalliza- tion of history . I remember a dinner - party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no ...
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... once delighted in editorial writing , and still occasionally varies his heavy professional toil by the same agreeable relaxation . I have known him to stand up to his tall desk and dash off column after column on for- eign and domestic ...
... once delighted in editorial writing , and still occasionally varies his heavy professional toil by the same agreeable relaxation . I have known him to stand up to his tall desk and dash off column after column on for- eign and domestic ...
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... once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well - known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly esteemed for his amiability and learning , visited my office in his company ; but when I met him a ...
... once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well - known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly esteemed for his amiability and learning , visited my office in his company ; but when I met him a ...
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... once their love of their great country and their gratitude to their unselfish leader . [ February 12 , 1871. ] VI . It is one of the penalties , if penalty it be , of those who ab- stain from national affairs , that they are rarely ...
... once their love of their great country and their gratitude to their unselfish leader . [ February 12 , 1871. ] VI . It is one of the penalties , if penalty it be , of those who ab- stain from national affairs , that they are rarely ...
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