Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 102
... course on the Compromise measures ; and Webster , his Secretary of State , with Rufus Choate , and many others of equal note , had been cool to General Scott , the Whig candidate in 1852. The courtesies interchanged between the ex ...
... course on the Compromise measures ; and Webster , his Secretary of State , with Rufus Choate , and many others of equal note , had been cool to General Scott , the Whig candidate in 1852. The courtesies interchanged between the ex ...
Page 106
... course with the intelligent people of that tolerant and refined city . She has ceased talking about the Lost Cause , and comes back much enlightened and improved , precisely as if she had seen a superior new world . ” Several weeks ago ...
... course with the intelligent people of that tolerant and refined city . She has ceased talking about the Lost Cause , and comes back much enlightened and improved , precisely as if she had seen a superior new world . ” Several weeks ago ...
Page 118
... course with President Franklin Pierce , who sincerely admired him . The twenty years between 1838 and 1858 were crowded with events . In Philadelphia we mingled with spirits like W. E. Burton , Tyrone Power , and Edwin Forrest , the ...
... course with President Franklin Pierce , who sincerely admired him . The twenty years between 1838 and 1858 were crowded with events . In Philadelphia we mingled with spirits like W. E. Burton , Tyrone Power , and Edwin Forrest , the ...
Page 119
... course upon the transfer of the Park grounds to the Centennial Commission , July 4 , 1873 , are only a few instances of hun- dreds . Perhaps no man ever possessed a greater faculty of un- prepared oratory , especially at the dinner ...
... course upon the transfer of the Park grounds to the Centennial Commission , July 4 , 1873 , are only a few instances of hun- dreds . Perhaps no man ever possessed a greater faculty of un- prepared oratory , especially at the dinner ...
Page 128
... course . Let us imitate this prudence , and before we float further on the waves of this debate , refer to the point from which we departed , that we at least may be able to form some conjecture where we now are . I ask for the reading ...
... course . Let us imitate this prudence , and before we float further on the waves of this debate , refer to the point from which we departed , that we at least may be able to form some conjecture where we now are . I ask for the reading ...
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