Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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Page 64
... story of General Jackson , probably for the hundredth time . Shortly after Mr. Buchanan's return from Russia in 1834 , to which he had been sent by President Jackson in 1832 , and im- mediately following his election to the Senate of ...
... story of General Jackson , probably for the hundredth time . Shortly after Mr. Buchanan's return from Russia in 1834 , to which he had been sent by President Jackson in 1832 , and im- mediately following his election to the Senate of ...
Page 79
... I had Jefferson more than once as a visitor , and Davenport , and gen- erous , true - hearted Murdoch . But long before I was a tenant in the old Mills House it had a peculiar story of its own . It is one THE IDIOT BOY. ...
... I had Jefferson more than once as a visitor , and Davenport , and gen- erous , true - hearted Murdoch . But long before I was a tenant in the old Mills House it had a peculiar story of its own . It is one THE IDIOT BOY. ...
Page 80
John Wien Forney. a peculiar story of its own . It is one of the institutions of Washington . Occupied during the last hundred years by men . of all shades of politics , there is hardly a room in it that has not a legend by which to be ...
John Wien Forney. a peculiar story of its own . It is one of the institutions of Washington . Occupied during the last hundred years by men . of all shades of politics , there is hardly a room in it that has not a legend by which to be ...
Page 83
... story relished one from others . The clearest logician in the days of Jackson and Van Buren was Silas Wright , who was strangely modest and unobtrusive . Henry Clay , haughty and imperious as he often was , delighted in anecdote . The ...
... story relished one from others . The clearest logician in the days of Jackson and Van Buren was Silas Wright , who was strangely modest and unobtrusive . Henry Clay , haughty and imperious as he often was , delighted in anecdote . The ...
Page 84
... stories of the one and the songs of the other , time passed away ! Ogle had two favorites , one the famous poem entitled " Jeannette and Jeannot , " which ought to have been often sung during the recent war between France and Germany ...
... stories of the one and the songs of the other , time passed away ! Ogle had two favorites , one the famous poem entitled " Jeannette and Jeannot , " which ought to have been often sung during the recent war between France and Germany ...
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