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... career . Their history is , at all events , no proclamation hung out to indolence and stupidity . % HENRY CLAY did not long remain behind Mr. Denny's counter , tying packages , and compounding simples for sick children . His new ...
... career . Their history is , at all events , no proclamation hung out to indolence and stupidity . % HENRY CLAY did not long remain behind Mr. Denny's counter , tying packages , and compounding simples for sick children . His new ...
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... career , he was adding to his private happiness , by bring- ing around himself the comforts of a home . With social affec- tions keenly active , he early sought that high sympathy and companionship which can be found only in marriage ...
... career , he was adding to his private happiness , by bring- ing around himself the comforts of a home . With social affec- tions keenly active , he early sought that high sympathy and companionship which can be found only in marriage ...
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... career of politics , there was to be for CLAY no turning back . General Adair of Kentucky , resigned his seat in the United States Senate , and CLAY , though but twenty - nine years of age , was selected to fill the vacancy . As he was ...
... career of politics , there was to be for CLAY no turning back . General Adair of Kentucky , resigned his seat in the United States Senate , and CLAY , though but twenty - nine years of age , was selected to fill the vacancy . As he was ...
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... career , in the limited sphere of a State Legisla- ture , we are now to see draw to a close . His talents are for wider fields and loftier displays . The skill which he has acquired , is to be transferred permanently to that arena where ...
... career , in the limited sphere of a State Legisla- ture , we are now to see draw to a close . His talents are for wider fields and loftier displays . The skill which he has acquired , is to be transferred permanently to that arena where ...
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... career in that direction was but just inaugurated when CLAY , in 1810 , a second time entered the Senate . The country was ready , and waiting for the minds which were to mark out and fix its subsequent policy . Of those minds CLAY'S ...
... career in that direction was but just inaugurated when CLAY , in 1810 , a second time entered the Senate . The country was ready , and waiting for the minds which were to mark out and fix its subsequent policy . Of those minds CLAY'S ...
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