Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 81
... poor health and spirits , he was happily taken to sea by an uncle , captain of a fishing schooner bound to the coast of Labrador . Here he made strength and ambition , and at twenty he came back to Lowell and the law , practised in the ...
... poor health and spirits , he was happily taken to sea by an uncle , captain of a fishing schooner bound to the coast of Labrador . Here he made strength and ambition , and at twenty he came back to Lowell and the law , practised in the ...
Page 82
... poor fellow , fired with the fervor of types and the glow of paragraphs , has done before and will do again ; and , as a last resort , he asked General Butler to lend him seven thousand dollars . The latter knew the debt would be hard ...
... poor fellow , fired with the fervor of types and the glow of paragraphs , has done before and will do again ; and , as a last resort , he asked General Butler to lend him seven thousand dollars . The latter knew the debt would be hard ...
Page 87
... poor actress in the Old World , whose only dowry was her loveliness and her genius . In this country a beautiful and accomplished woman never fails to make her fortune on the stage , and it is simply her own fault if she does not attain ...
... poor actress in the Old World , whose only dowry was her loveliness and her genius . In this country a beautiful and accomplished woman never fails to make her fortune on the stage , and it is simply her own fault if she does not attain ...
Page 97
... poor young printer and editor of a literary journal - a very ac- tive and bitter Whig in a small way , but not seeking to be known out of my own ward committee , when , after the great political revulsion of 1837 , I was one day called ...
... poor young printer and editor of a literary journal - a very ac- tive and bitter Whig in a small way , but not seeking to be known out of my own ward committee , when , after the great political revulsion of 1837 , I was one day called ...
Page 106
... poor man is the equal of the rich one if he is intel- ligent and worthy , and where the Irish hackman is as polite as he is rude in New York . " Such was substantially the tribute of James M. Mason , of Virginia , while he was a Senator ...
... poor man is the equal of the rich one if he is intel- ligent and worthy , and where the Irish hackman is as polite as he is rude in New York . " Such was substantially the tribute of James M. Mason , of Virginia , while he was a Senator ...
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