Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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John Wien Forney. V. GEORGE BANCROFT , THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN . Two photographs of George Bancroft - one when I saw him in Washington , June , 1845 ; the other when I saw him in Paris , July , 1867 - marked distinctly by the changes of ...
John Wien Forney. V. GEORGE BANCROFT , THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN . Two photographs of George Bancroft - one when I saw him in Washington , June , 1845 ; the other when I saw him in Paris , July , 1867 - marked distinctly by the changes of ...
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... George Bancroft was an earnest Democrat down to the re- bellion , but ceased to be a partisan as he grew into his great work " The History of the United States . " His support of the Government and his ultimate hostility to slavery were ...
... George Bancroft was an earnest Democrat down to the re- bellion , but ceased to be a partisan as he grew into his great work " The History of the United States . " His support of the Government and his ultimate hostility to slavery were ...
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... George Bancroft long remained an active Democrat . Reared for the pulpit , like Everett , the best years of his early life were given to the Democracy . He was appointed Collect- or of the Port of Boston by President Van Buren in 1838 ...
... George Bancroft long remained an active Democrat . Reared for the pulpit , like Everett , the best years of his early life were given to the Democracy . He was appointed Collect- or of the Port of Boston by President Van Buren in 1838 ...
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... George Washington , the son of a widow . Born by the side of the Potomac , beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer , almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan . No academy had welcomed him to its shades , no college ...
... George Washington , the son of a widow . Born by the side of the Potomac , beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer , almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan . No academy had welcomed him to its shades , no college ...
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... George Washington appointed Andrew Jackson to the office of United States District Attorney in the year 1791 ? And yet this fact is stated by the accurate Dr. Cartwright in his Jackson oration , at Natchez , 12th of July , 1845. I use ...
... George Washington appointed Andrew Jackson to the office of United States District Attorney in the year 1791 ? And yet this fact is stated by the accurate Dr. Cartwright in his Jackson oration , at Natchez , 12th of July , 1845. I use ...
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