Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... length settled for all time . The rude awakening came two years later , when the country was aroused , as it had rarely been before , by impassioned debate in and out of Congress , over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise . It was a ...
... length settled for all time . The rude awakening came two years later , when the country was aroused , as it had rarely been before , by impassioned debate in and out of Congress , over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise . It was a ...
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... length gave utterance to this petition , ' For what we are about to receive , and for what William Taylor has already received , accept our thanks , O Lord ! ' " In cheery tones the great orator at once replied , " Knott , you are the ...
... length gave utterance to this petition , ' For what we are about to receive , and for what William Taylor has already received , accept our thanks , O Lord ! ' " In cheery tones the great orator at once replied , " Knott , you are the ...
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... length , upon any subject . Thoroughly familiar with all that pertained to our political history , with a voice easily heard above the storm , he was ever in the forefront of the hurly- burly of heated partisan debate . There was little ...
... length , upon any subject . Thoroughly familiar with all that pertained to our political history , with a voice easily heard above the storm , he was ever in the forefront of the hurly- burly of heated partisan debate . There was little ...
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... length , amid silence that could be felt , an adjournment was effected , and the Senators passed sadly out to their homes . As he passed the Chair , Senator Vest , in undertone , remarked to the Vice - President , " Jo never saw him ...
... length , amid silence that could be felt , an adjournment was effected , and the Senators passed sadly out to their homes . As he passed the Chair , Senator Vest , in undertone , remarked to the Vice - President , " Jo never saw him ...
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... length came . Mr. Cox was the victim of the hour ; the recipient of many compliments much more fervid than kind . The seven vials of wrath were opened upon him . A vast storehouse of wit , ancient and modern , was literally exhausted ...
... length came . Mr. Cox was the victim of the hour ; the recipient of many compliments much more fervid than kind . The seven vials of wrath were opened upon him . A vast storehouse of wit , ancient and modern , was literally exhausted ...
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