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Page 76
... look- ing into his father's face , he exclaimed , ' I see your squirrel ! You've been firing at a louse on your eyebrow ! ' " The story needed neither application nor explanation . The House was in convulsions of laughter ; for Mr ...
... look- ing into his father's face , he exclaimed , ' I see your squirrel ! You've been firing at a louse on your eyebrow ! ' " The story needed neither application nor explanation . The House was in convulsions of laughter ; for Mr ...
Page 95
... look his demigod in the face , and hear the music of his eloquence . He accordingly went to Lexington , and arrived there in time to attend the meeting . On returning to his home from this visit , he did not attempt to disguise his ...
... look his demigod in the face , and hear the music of his eloquence . He accordingly went to Lexington , and arrived there in time to attend the meeting . On returning to his home from this visit , he did not attempt to disguise his ...
Page 96
... look on all sides of a man , and on all sides of a subject , before yielding to either his devotion , than ever be- fore . If he became slow in moving , it was because he saw more than his own side of every case and question , and recog ...
... look on all sides of a man , and on all sides of a subject , before yielding to either his devotion , than ever be- fore . If he became slow in moving , it was because he saw more than his own side of every case and question , and recog ...
Page 101
... look back to this Congress , and see how , in the interests and associations of the old whig party , those men worked in harmony who have since been , or who , if they had lived would have been , so widely separated in feeling and ...
... look back to this Congress , and see how , in the interests and associations of the old whig party , those men worked in harmony who have since been , or who , if they had lived would have been , so widely separated in feeling and ...
Page 118
... look around , I doubt if you do not dis- cover such to be the fact among your own neighbors . Fur- ther than this by ... looks as if he were handling grave ques- tions of state with reference only to party ends ; but the letter does not ...
... look around , I doubt if you do not dis- cover such to be the fact among your own neighbors . Fur- ther than this by ... looks as if he were handling grave ques- tions of state with reference only to party ends ; but the letter does not ...
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