Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... tion was laid for much of existing business conditions . The South had recovered from the sad effects of the Civil War , and had in a measure regained its former position in the world of trade , as well as in that pertaining to the ...
... tion was laid for much of existing business conditions . The South had recovered from the sad effects of the Civil War , and had in a measure regained its former position in the world of trade , as well as in that pertaining to the ...
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... tion to great party leaders than that of which we write . Of eminent statesmen , whose names were still invoked , none had filled larger space than did Henry Clay and Andrew Jack- son . The former was the early political idol of Mr ...
... tion to great party leaders than that of which we write . Of eminent statesmen , whose names were still invoked , none had filled larger space than did Henry Clay and Andrew Jack- son . The former was the early political idol of Mr ...
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... tion , and , in the same degree , incapacitate them for that frugal attention to their private concerns which their limited means usually require . They have , in consequence , a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters ...
... tion , and , in the same degree , incapacitate them for that frugal attention to their private concerns which their limited means usually require . They have , in consequence , a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters ...
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... tion , principally of incidents of their early lives , of the most agreeable and familiar character . Judge Lawrence Weldon , just then at the beginning of an honorable career , was present at the above interview , and has in a sketch ...
... tion , principally of incidents of their early lives , of the most agreeable and familiar character . Judge Lawrence Weldon , just then at the beginning of an honorable career , was present at the above interview , and has in a sketch ...
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... tion being made , the bill was in the very act of passing when an exceedingly bright member from Wisconsin , " being moved and instigated by the devil , " no doubt , rushed to the front and exclaimed , " Mr. Speaker , I desire to call ...
... tion being made , the bill was in the very act of passing when an exceedingly bright member from Wisconsin , " being moved and instigated by the devil , " no doubt , rushed to the front and exclaimed , " Mr. Speaker , I desire to call ...
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