Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... later presented candidates for the Presidency . It is no doubt true that a majority of the people , in both sec- tions of the country , then believed that the question that had been so fraught with peril to national unity from the begin ...
... later presented candidates for the Presidency . It is no doubt true that a majority of the people , in both sec- tions of the country , then believed that the question that had been so fraught with peril to national unity from the begin ...
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... later days had not yet ar- rived . The half - dozen volumes of State Reports , together with the Statutes and a few leading text - books , constituted the lawyer's library . To an Illinois lawyer upon the cir- cuit , a pair of saddle ...
... later days had not yet ar- rived . The half - dozen volumes of State Reports , together with the Statutes and a few leading text - books , constituted the lawyer's library . To an Illinois lawyer upon the cir- cuit , a pair of saddle ...
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... later and more civilized period . As late even as 1858 , when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate , when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate , and the excitement was for many months ...
... later and more civilized period . As late even as 1858 , when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate , when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate , and the excitement was for many months ...
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... later , in the words of his great eulogist , " The stately mansion of power had become to him the wearisome hospital of pain , and he begged to be taken from its prison walls , from its oppressive , stifling air , from its homelessness ...
... later , in the words of his great eulogist , " The stately mansion of power had become to him the wearisome hospital of pain , and he begged to be taken from its prison walls , from its oppressive , stifling air , from its homelessness ...
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... later a Judge of the United States Circuit Court . The Hon . Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois , the present Speaker , was just at the beginning of his long Congressional For many years he has been an active leader of the House and a ...
... later a Judge of the United States Circuit Court . The Hon . Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois , the present Speaker , was just at the beginning of his long Congressional For many years he has been an active leader of the House and a ...
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