Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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... dying , and when all our people are looking forward to a new era 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 ...
... dying , and when all our people are looking forward to a new era 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 ...
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... died December 25 , 1876 . II . EDWARD EVERETT , THE CLASSIC ORATOR . EDWARD EVERETT , of Massachusetts , was the ideal of public and private virtue . He was placid , cool , exact , and conscien- tious , yet always imaginative , 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 placid , cool , exact , and conscien- tious , yet always imaginative , and ...
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... , on the 11th of April , 1794 , and died at Boston on the 16th of Janu- ary , 1865 , literally in harness , just after he had returned from the delivery of an oration at Savannah for the relief of EDWARD EVERETT . 15.
... , on the 11th of April , 1794 , and died at Boston on the 16th of Janu- ary , 1865 , literally in harness , just after he had returned from the delivery of an oration at Savannah for the relief of EDWARD EVERETT . 15.
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... died in vain . That the nation shall , under God , have a new birth of freedom , and the Government of the people , by the people , and for the people shall not perish from the earth . " And so ends this chapter , I fear already too ...
... died in vain . That the nation shall , under God , have a new birth of freedom , and the Government of the people , by the people , and for the people shall not perish from the earth . " And so ends this chapter , I fear already too ...
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... died ; saw the coronation of George the Fourth , July 20 , 1821 ; and was present as a private citizen in London at the death of his suc- cessor , William the Fourth , and the accession of Queen Victo- ria , in 1837. His " Occasional ...
... died ; saw the coronation of George the Fourth , July 20 , 1821 ; and was present as a private citizen in London at the death of his suc- cessor , William the Fourth , and the accession of Queen Victo- ria , in 1837. His " Occasional ...
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