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... statesmen or lawyers , soldiers or politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player , you can at least do justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and ...
... statesmen or lawyers , soldiers or politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player , you can at least do justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and ...
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... statesman , and insisting that there were others far more effective in the opposition , he wound up by saying : " He is nothing but an actor , sir — a mere actor . ” Then suddenly recollecting the presence of our favorite trage- dian ...
... statesman , and insisting that there were others far more effective in the opposition , he wound up by saying : " He is nothing but an actor , sir — a mere actor . ” Then suddenly recollecting the presence of our favorite trage- dian ...
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... statesman appeared , and when he did he looked like an- other Coriolanus . Robed in his dressing - gown , he spoke a few minutes , but in a manner I shall never forget . His voice , al- ways clear and sonorous , rolled with deeper ...
... statesman appeared , and when he did he looked like an- other Coriolanus . Robed in his dressing - gown , he spoke a few minutes , but in a manner I shall never forget . His voice , al- ways clear and sonorous , rolled with deeper ...
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... statesmen were not so industrious , with perhaps the possible exception of Mr. Buchanan , whose biography has not appeared , owing to unexpected events . When it is published , we have his own pledge that it will be unstained by the use ...
... statesmen were not so industrious , with perhaps the possible exception of Mr. Buchanan , whose biography has not appeared , owing to unexpected events . When it is published , we have his own pledge that it will be unstained by the use ...
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... statesman who 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 ...
... statesman who 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 ...
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