Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... associates here , and with intense Union consituencies at home , their apprehension , as they are called to vote upon this amendment , is indeed deplor- able . It reminds me of a Hibernian procession I once saw moving down Broadway ...
... associates here , and with intense Union consituencies at home , their apprehension , as they are called to vote upon this amendment , is indeed deplor- able . It reminds me of a Hibernian procession I once saw moving down Broadway ...
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... associates during his long service in the House . His principle in action seemed ever to be , " there is nothing so kingly as kindness . " Messrs . Hale and Frye of Maine , Aldrich of Rhode Island , Money of Mississippi , Taylor of ...
... associates during his long service in the House . His principle in action seemed ever to be , " there is nothing so kingly as kindness . " Messrs . Hale and Frye of Maine , Aldrich of Rhode Island , Money of Mississippi , Taylor of ...
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... associate it would have been difficult to find . He was optimistic to the last degree . To him every cloud had a silver lining , - the lining generally concealing the cloud . It was said of him by one of his colleagues that when the ...
... associate it would have been difficult to find . He was optimistic to the last degree . To him every cloud had a silver lining , - the lining generally concealing the cloud . It was said of him by one of his colleagues that when the ...
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... associate of men whose public service reached back to the formation of the Government . In the old hall near by now the Valhalla of the nation - he had sat with John Quincy Adams and contemporaries whose names at once recall the ...
... associate of men whose public service reached back to the formation of the Government . In the old hall near by now the Valhalla of the nation - he had sat with John Quincy Adams and contemporaries whose names at once recall the ...
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... associates upon the ticket , his name , like that of Abou Ben Ad- hem , led all the rest . From Pierce to McKinley — whatever the issues , and howsoever determined at each successive organization of the House " the gentleman from ...
... associates upon the ticket , his name , like that of Abou Ben Ad- hem , led all the rest . From Pierce to McKinley — whatever the issues , and howsoever determined at each successive organization of the House " the gentleman from ...
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