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Elth F ( 1 TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY : UNFORGOTTEN AND UNFORGETTING . ml eneral I HAVE known you , my dear Dougherty , for nearly thirty years ; when your hair , now turning gray , was glossy black ; when both of us were struggling young men ...
Elth F ( 1 TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY : UNFORGOTTEN AND UNFORGETTING . ml eneral I HAVE known you , my dear Dougherty , for nearly thirty years ; when your hair , now turning gray , was glossy black ; when both of us were struggling young men ...
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their recollections they are getting old ; but you have taught me in our long and unbroken devotion to each other that nothing keeps the heart so young and so fresh as the habit of reviving the best deeds of our fellow - creatures and ...
their recollections they are getting old ; but you have taught me in our long and unbroken devotion to each other that nothing keeps the heart so young and so fresh as the habit of reviving the best deeds of our fellow - creatures and ...
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But I must emphasize the suggestion that our young men and young women can employ one or two hours every day no more agreeably and usefully than by keeping a journal . Begun after school - time while they are boys and girls ...
But I must emphasize the suggestion that our young men and young women can employ one or two hours every day no more agreeably and usefully than by keeping a journal . Begun after school - time while they are boys and girls ...
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The national patronage on the Pacific slope was concentrated in the hands of his colleague , and the young Senator began his career by finding his friends stripped of the power they had fairly won . The disappointment was grievous ...
The national patronage on the Pacific slope was concentrated in the hands of his colleague , and the young Senator began his career by finding his friends stripped of the power they had fairly won . The disappointment was grievous ...
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I shall be challenged , I shall fight , and I shall be killed . ” These were his words . I tried to rally him on these forebodings ; told him he was young and brave , and would live to be even more honored in the years to.
I shall be challenged , I shall fight , and I shall be killed . ” These were his words . I tried to rally him on these forebodings ; told him he was young and brave , and would live to be even more honored in the years to.
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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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