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Page 12
And such appears to me our acquaintance , from the time when I heard you for a week recite your lessons in the little school - house in Short Street to the date hereof . " I met Mr. Everett several times , but the occasion most to be ...
And such appears to me our acquaintance , from the time when I heard you for a week recite your lessons in the little school - house in Short Street to the date hereof . " I met Mr. Everett several times , but the occasion most to be ...
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The spots on which they stood and fell , these pleasant heights ; the fertile plain beneath them ; the thriving village whose streets so lately rang with the strange din of war ; the fields beyond the ridge where the noble Reynolds held ...
The spots on which they stood and fell , these pleasant heights ; the fertile plain beneath them ; the thriving village whose streets so lately rang with the strange din of war ; the fields beyond the ridge where the noble Reynolds held ...
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I saw Governor Sprague for the first time when the Rhode Island regiment , twelve hundred strong , was drawn up in Seventh Street , opposite the Patent - office , in the city of Washington , in April , 1861. How young he looked !
I saw Governor Sprague for the first time when the Rhode Island regiment , twelve hundred strong , was drawn up in Seventh Street , opposite the Patent - office , in the city of Washington , in April , 1861. How young he looked !
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There is an “ organ " of somebody or something in every main street in a great city ; one to three in every leading Northern town ; one in every village of the slightest pretensions — all organs of somebody or something , grinding away ...
There is an “ organ " of somebody or something in every main street in a great city ; one to three in every leading Northern town ; one in every village of the slightest pretensions — all organs of somebody or something , grinding away ...
Page 89
Mr. Brougham , who was a member of the brilliant company then performing at Wallack's Theatre , Broadway and Broome Street , had engaged to write a burlesque , to be produced by Mr. James Wallack , as the Christmas piece for 1855.
Mr. Brougham , who was a member of the brilliant company then performing at Wallack's Theatre , Broadway and Broome Street , had engaged to write a burlesque , to be produced by Mr. James Wallack , as the Christmas piece for 1855.
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1881 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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