Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... eloquent tribute to " the hero of Lundy's Lane , " and his humorous description of the military career of General Frank- lin Pierce . The incident now to be related occurred at the old National JAMES S. EWING 3 Hotel in Bloomington in ...
... eloquent tribute to " the hero of Lundy's Lane , " and his humorous description of the military career of General Frank- lin Pierce . The incident now to be related occurred at the old National JAMES S. EWING 3 Hotel in Bloomington in ...
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... eloquence . Later , Mr. Lamar was a prominent participant in one of the fiercest debates the Senate has ever known ... eloquent address , he was very much exhausted . An excellent collation , prepared by the ladies connected with the ...
... eloquence . Later , Mr. Lamar was a prominent participant in one of the fiercest debates the Senate has ever known ... eloquent address , he was very much exhausted . An excellent collation , prepared by the ladies connected with the ...
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... eloquent speech of any length , upon any subject . Thoroughly familiar with all that pertained to our political history , with a voice easily heard above the storm , he was ever in the forefront of the hurly- burly of heated partisan ...
... eloquent speech of any length , upon any subject . Thoroughly familiar with all that pertained to our political history , with a voice easily heard above the storm , he was ever in the forefront of the hurly- burly of heated partisan ...
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... eloquence , was unrivalled . He spoke most tenderly of the faithfulness of the venerable man of God ; how for long years he had gone in and out before us ; of his daily walk and conversation ; how , like the Blessed Master , his only ...
... eloquence , was unrivalled . He spoke most tenderly of the faithfulness of the venerable man of God ; how for long years he had gone in and out before us ; of his daily walk and conversation ; how , like the Blessed Master , his only ...
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... eloquent dedicatory address with the words : " Though these marble walls moulder into ruins , the Senate in another age may bear into a new and larger chamber the Constitution vigorous and inviolate , and the last generation of ...
... eloquent dedicatory address with the words : " Though these marble walls moulder into ruins , the Senate in another age may bear into a new and larger chamber the Constitution vigorous and inviolate , and the last generation of ...
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