Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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... of production and prosperity , I feel that this volume will be read with pleasure , and perhaps with profit , in all the states . J. W. F. ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN . I. JAMES W. NYE , 470455 PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME. ...
... of production and prosperity , I feel that this volume will be read with pleasure , and perhaps with profit , in all the states . J. W. F. ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN . I. JAMES W. NYE , 470455 PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME. ...
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John Wien Forney. ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN . I. JAMES W. NYE , THE HUMOROUS ORATOR . WHEN James W. Nye was a very young man , not more than thirty , he was appointed one of the Common Pleas judges for his native county of Madison , N. Y. ...
John Wien Forney. ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN . I. JAMES W. NYE , THE HUMOROUS ORATOR . WHEN James W. Nye was a very young man , not more than thirty , he was appointed one of the Common Pleas judges for his native county of Madison , N. Y. ...
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... James K. Polk . To him , therefore , as one of his closest friends , whose lead he had followed in the Democratic party from his first vote , Judge Nye wrote a letter relating the story as I have tried to tell it , and asking him to ...
... James K. Polk . To him , therefore , as one of his closest friends , whose lead he had followed in the Democratic party from his first vote , Judge Nye wrote a letter relating the story as I have tried to tell it , and asking him to ...
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... James W. Nye was born in Madi- son County , New York , June 10 , 1815 , and died December 25 , 1876 . II . EDWARD EVERETT , THE CLASSIC ORATOR . EDWARD EVERETT , of Massachusetts , was the ideal of public and private virtue . He was ...
... James W. Nye was born in Madi- son County , New York , June 10 , 1815 , and died December 25 , 1876 . II . EDWARD EVERETT , THE CLASSIC ORATOR . EDWARD EVERETT , of Massachusetts , was the ideal of public and private virtue . He was ...
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... James Madison was President , with John Quincy Adams Secretary of State . Joseph Story was on the Supreme Bench of the United States , and was much attracted by the young divine , then only twenty- six . He wrote that " the sermon was ...
... James Madison was President , with John Quincy Adams Secretary of State . Joseph Story was on the Supreme Bench of the United States , and was much attracted by the young divine , then only twenty- six . He wrote that " the sermon was ...
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