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... replied , " Well , how strangely things do come around in this world ! When we were in college to- gether , Calhoun was the strongest kind of a Presbyterian . ' 99 I intimated that his sometime classmate was still of that eminently ...
... replied , " Well , how strangely things do come around in this world ! When we were in college to- gether , Calhoun was the strongest kind of a Presbyterian . ' 99 I intimated that his sometime classmate was still of that eminently ...
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... replied , " You ought not to feel so , Mr. Justice ; that blessing of Doctor Bullock's was broad and general ; in large measure retrospective , as well as prospective . It reminds me of a little incident that occurred on the ' Rolling ...
... replied , " You ought not to feel so , Mr. Justice ; that blessing of Doctor Bullock's was broad and general ; in large measure retrospective , as well as prospective . It reminds me of a little incident that occurred on the ' Rolling ...
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... replied that he did not wish to speak . Whereupon Mr. Blackburn , stepping promptly to the front of the scaffold , said : " As the gentleman does not wish to speak , if he will kindly yield me his time , I will take this occasion to ...
... replied that he did not wish to speak . Whereupon Mr. Blackburn , stepping promptly to the front of the scaffold , said : " As the gentleman does not wish to speak , if he will kindly yield me his time , I will take this occasion to ...
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... replied : " My friend , don't ask me that question . I am a politician , and a candi- date for reëlection to Congress ; my district is about equally divided ; Hamlet has his friends down there , and Macbeth his , and I am unwilling to ...
... replied : " My friend , don't ask me that question . I am a politician , and a candi- date for reëlection to Congress ; my district is about equally divided ; Hamlet has his friends down there , and Macbeth his , and I am unwilling to ...
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... replied that he presumed he had not , at which the judge , handing the applicant a copy of the revised statutes containing the Constitution , admonished him to read it carefully . Mr. Flynn , carrying the volume in his arms , and ...
... replied that he presumed he had not , at which the judge , handing the applicant a copy of the revised statutes containing the Constitution , admonished him to read it carefully . Mr. Flynn , carrying the volume in his arms , and ...
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