Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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... fact , and false in loyalty . The Senator from Kentucky is mistaken in them all . Five hundred million dol- lars ! What then ? Great Britain gave more than two thou- sand millions in the great battle for constitutional liberty which she ...
... fact , and false in loyalty . The Senator from Kentucky is mistaken in them all . Five hundred million dol- lars ! What then ? Great Britain gave more than two thou- sand millions in the great battle for constitutional liberty which she ...
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... fact that Texas is now the fertile outpost of an athletic civilization , and of the other fact that if we had not conquered her from Mexico , she would be to - day a sort of mid- dle ground , compounded of guerillas and knights of the ...
... fact that Texas is now the fertile outpost of an athletic civilization , and of the other fact that if we had not conquered her from Mexico , she would be to - day a sort of mid- dle ground , compounded of guerillas and knights of the ...
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... facts and arguments which rivet con- viction on every impartial mind , and deny refutation . ” MR . ADAMS . " I wrote that dispatch as Secretary of State , and endeavored to make out the best case I could for my own country , as it was ...
... facts and arguments which rivet con- viction on every impartial mind , and deny refutation . ” MR . ADAMS . " I wrote that dispatch as Secretary of State , and endeavored to make out the best case I could for my own country , as it was ...
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... fact that States and statesmen often undergo entire revulsions of politic- al sentiment and conviction . To doubt the sincerity of these changes is to question the justice of every sort of conversion . Slavery has been the most potent ...
... fact that States and statesmen often undergo entire revulsions of politic- al sentiment and conviction . To doubt the sincerity of these changes is to question the justice of every sort of conversion . Slavery has been the most potent ...
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... Fact so rules the world that even the novelist can not be successful unless he weaves the very best likeness of it into his fictions . A great and wise man said to me lately , after reading one of Charles Reade's wonderful creations ...
... Fact so rules the world that even the novelist can not be successful unless he weaves the very best likeness of it into his fictions . A great and wise man said to me lately , after reading one of Charles Reade's wonderful creations ...
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