Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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... dead . Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as the American ...
... dead . Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as the American ...
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... dead , pray remember that it was one of the thoughts which clung most closely to me to the very last . " Perhaps Mr. Webster's condensation of the career of Edward Everett , printed above , gives a sufficient idea of the events crowded ...
... dead , pray remember that it was one of the thoughts which clung most closely to me to the very last . " Perhaps Mr. Webster's condensation of the career of Edward Everett , printed above , gives a sufficient idea of the events crowded ...
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... dead , some for the education of the poor , until we come down to what deserves to be called the crowning act of his life - the address at the con- secration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg , on the 19th of November , 1863. This ...
... dead , some for the education of the poor , until we come down to what deserves to be called the crowning act of his life - the address at the con- secration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg , on the 19th of November , 1863. This ...
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... dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain . That the nation shall , under God , have a new birth of ...
... dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain . That the nation shall , under God , have a new birth of ...
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... complimentary , the incident having drawn attention from all near enough to witness it . " And now history is again repeating itself . The Emperor Louis Napoleon is dead ; his son , the Prince 28 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... complimentary , the incident having drawn attention from all near enough to witness it . " And now history is again repeating itself . The Emperor Louis Napoleon is dead ; his son , the Prince 28 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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