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... United States since the discovery of America , yet out of this vast number the experts who com- piled that extensive and most valuable " Encyclopedia of American Biography " could find , after a most careful and ex- haustive research ...
... United States since the discovery of America , yet out of this vast number the experts who com- piled that extensive and most valuable " Encyclopedia of American Biography " could find , after a most careful and ex- haustive research ...
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... United States . Now , New York alone has more than three thousand such per- sons . Thrice that number are said to be in this country , -some of whom reckon their wealth by scores of millions , while there are whole brigades , and even ...
... United States . Now , New York alone has more than three thousand such per- sons . Thrice that number are said to be in this country , -some of whom reckon their wealth by scores of millions , while there are whole brigades , and even ...
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... United States , machinery , the product of brains , is doing an amount of work , day by day , that would require the utmost exertion of the muscles of more than a thousand millions of men to perform . Skill and power are not of the ...
... United States , machinery , the product of brains , is doing an amount of work , day by day , that would require the utmost exertion of the muscles of more than a thousand millions of men to perform . Skill and power are not of the ...
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... United States . While circumstances do not always make the man ( very many persons rising superior to and overcoming the most repressive environments ) , yet they have much to do with many in determining what the world calls their ...
... United States . While circumstances do not always make the man ( very many persons rising superior to and overcoming the most repressive environments ) , yet they have much to do with many in determining what the world calls their ...
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... for a fortune elsewhere . After he had become the vice - president of the United States , he told the citizens of Great Falls , N. H. , when there on a visit , of this experience . He said : " I know 61 SINGLENESS OF AIM .
... for a fortune elsewhere . After he had become the vice - president of the United States , he told the citizens of Great Falls , N. H. , when there on a visit , of this experience . He said : " I know 61 SINGLENESS OF AIM .
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