Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . PERIOD TH - - - LINCOLN'S THE WRITER'S HE period extending from my first election to Congress in 1874 , to my retirement from the Vice ...
... LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . PERIOD TH - - - LINCOLN'S THE WRITER'S HE period extending from my first election to Congress in 1874 , to my retirement from the Vice ...
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... leaders than that of which we write . Of eminent statesmen , whose names were still invoked , none had filled larger ... leadership a greater than he hath not appeared . At his last defeat for the Presi- dency strong men wept bitter ...
... leaders than that of which we write . Of eminent statesmen , whose names were still invoked , none had filled larger ... leadership a greater than he hath not appeared . At his last defeat for the Presi- dency strong men wept bitter ...
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... leader of the minority , had been for twelve years a member of the House , having been first elected at the age of thirty - three . He was a brilliant debater , well JAMES G. BLAINE ROBERT E. WILLIAMS versed in parliamentary law 18 ...
... leader of the minority , had been for twelve years a member of the House , having been first elected at the age of thirty - three . He was a brilliant debater , well JAMES G. BLAINE ROBERT E. WILLIAMS versed in parliamentary law 18 ...
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... leader . That he possessed a touch of humor will appear from the following . While the discussion was at its height upon his amendment excluding Jefferson Davis from the benefit of the General Amnesty Bill , Mr. Blaine , looking across ...
... leader . That he possessed a touch of humor will appear from the following . While the discussion was at its height upon his amendment excluding Jefferson Davis from the benefit of the General Amnesty Bill , Mr. Blaine , looking across ...
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... leadership to Mr. Blaine , upon the Republican side , was the Hon . James A. Garfield . He possessed few of the qualities of brilliant leadership so eminently character- istic of Blaine , but was withal one of the ablest men I have ever ...
... leadership to Mr. Blaine , upon the Republican side , was the Hon . James A. Garfield . He possessed few of the qualities of brilliant leadership so eminently character- istic of Blaine , but was withal one of the ablest men I have ever ...
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