Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 90
... Charles Surface , Dazzle , Rover ; no finer Sir Pertinax MacSyc- ophant , or Sir Peter Teazle , or Doctor Syntax , or Rory O'More , or Wilkins Micawber , or Captain Cuttle ; no more genuine sailor or soldier ; no better singer of Irish ...
... Charles Surface , Dazzle , Rover ; no finer Sir Pertinax MacSyc- ophant , or Sir Peter Teazle , or Doctor Syntax , or Rory O'More , or Wilkins Micawber , or Captain Cuttle ; no more genuine sailor or soldier ; no better singer of Irish ...
Page 101
... Charles H. Marshall , who would have been your dead- liest enemy in the House ; and even your Colonel - general's paper , which was even with me in insisting that Wheeler should be returned , wheeled about at the last moment , and went ...
... Charles H. Marshall , who would have been your dead- liest enemy in the House ; and even your Colonel - general's paper , which was even with me in insisting that Wheeler should be returned , wheeled about at the last moment , and went ...
Page 118
... Charles Gibbons , and W. D. Kelley . Outside our city , we met and mingled with the chiefs of both the great parties . My friend was the intimate of John M. Clay- ton , Henry Clay , Daniel Webster , John J. Crittenden , W. H. Seward ...
... Charles Gibbons , and W. D. Kelley . Outside our city , we met and mingled with the chiefs of both the great parties . My friend was the intimate of John M. Clay- ton , Henry Clay , Daniel Webster , John J. Crittenden , W. H. Seward ...
Page 126
... Charles W. March ) says his brief did not occupy half a sheet of paper . Hayne accused him of sleeping on his ( Hayne's ) first speech before he re- plied to it . " Yes , " said Webster , " I did sleep on the gentle- man's speech , and ...
... Charles W. March ) says his brief did not occupy half a sheet of paper . Hayne accused him of sleeping on his ( Hayne's ) first speech before he re- plied to it . " Yes , " said Webster , " I did sleep on the gentle- man's speech , and ...
Page 133
... Charles Reade or George Eliot . We turn to Webster as we turn to Shakespeare , as a well - spring of inspira- tion , as the great original from which the proudest are not ashamed to copy . The recollection of the glorious campaigns ...
... Charles Reade or George Eliot . We turn to Webster as we turn to Shakespeare , as a well - spring of inspira- tion , as the great original from which the proudest are not ashamed to copy . The recollection of the glorious campaigns ...
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