Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... never falls below the level of thoughtfulness into melancholy . " A distinguished writer , two generations ago , said of the early Western bar : " Not only was it a body distinguished for dignity and tol- erance , but chivalrous courage ...
... never falls below the level of thoughtfulness into melancholy . " A distinguished writer , two generations ago , said of the early Western bar : " Not only was it a body distinguished for dignity and tol- erance , but chivalrous courage ...
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... never mis- trusted for a moment that statesmen of high repute could in so perilous an hour , upon so grave a question , palter with words in a double sense . " We who are the actors in this drama know , and history will record the fact ...
... never mis- trusted for a moment that statesmen of high repute could in so perilous an hour , upon so grave a question , palter with words in a double sense . " We who are the actors in this drama know , and history will record the fact ...
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... never dreamed that a tribunal , consisting in part of five judges of the highest court upon earth , was to be con- stituted , whose sole duty was to report a fact known to every man in the land , that the returning - board of Louisiana ...
... never dreamed that a tribunal , consisting in part of five judges of the highest court upon earth , was to be con- stituted , whose sole duty was to report a fact known to every man in the land , that the returning - board of Louisiana ...
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... never known his equal as a party 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 ...
... never known his equal as a party 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 ...
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... , and Cox , and Knott , and Stevenson want to talk , let them go ahead , but if old Spears tries to speak just cough him down . " WILLIAM R. MORRISON WILLIAM M. SPRINGER Never in any political 26 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN.
... , and Cox , and Knott , and Stevenson want to talk , let them go ahead , but if old Spears tries to speak just cough him down . " WILLIAM R. MORRISON WILLIAM M. SPRINGER Never in any political 26 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN.
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