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... witness , and of some of the principal actors therein during the last third of a century . My book in the main is something of men I have person- ally known ; the occasional mention of statesmen of the past seems justified by matters at ...
... witness , and of some of the principal actors therein during the last third of a century . My book in the main is something of men I have person- ally known ; the occasional mention of statesmen of the past seems justified by matters at ...
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... witness the like of " Sunset " Cox ? Beginning a Con- gressional career , which was to terminate only with his death , when scarcely of the constitutional age , he was in close suc- cession a representative from two great States , — in ...
... witness the like of " Sunset " Cox ? Beginning a Con- gressional career , which was to terminate only with his death , when scarcely of the constitutional age , he was in close suc- cession a representative from two great States , — in ...
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... witness again . Unquestionably the least satisfactory of the devices of our Federal Constitution is that for the election of President and Vice - President through the instrumentality of colleges of electors chosen by the several States ...
... witness again . Unquestionably the least satisfactory of the devices of our Federal Constitution is that for the election of President and Vice - President through the instrumentality of colleges of electors chosen by the several States ...
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... last generation of posterity shall witness the deliberations of the representatives of American States still united , prosperous , and free . ' VI A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN THE WRITER'S SPEECH AT THE THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 81.
... last generation of posterity shall witness the deliberations of the representatives of American States still united , prosperous , and free . ' VI A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN THE WRITER'S SPEECH AT THE THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 81.
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... witness . Mr. Blaine in his history says : " His mind was fertile in resources . He was master of logic . In that peculiar style of debate which in its intensity resembles a physical combat , he had no equal . He spoke with extraor ...
... witness . Mr. Blaine in his history says : " His mind was fertile in resources . He was master of logic . In that peculiar style of debate which in its intensity resembles a physical combat , he had no equal . He spoke with extraor ...
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