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... once the material and the ability . Barton was an orator I have never heard surpassed in either House of Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting ...
... once the material and the ability . Barton was an orator I have never heard surpassed in either House of Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting ...
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... once the severest things we said of each other were written when we were dining together at the same table , and in the midst of mutual discussion and good nature . There were not many days of that heated and angry period that we did ...
... once the severest things we said of each other were written when we were dining together at the same table , and in the midst of mutual discussion and good nature . There were not many days of that heated and angry period that we did ...
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... once more associated . " Yours , very truly , J. W. FORNEY . " Hon . JOHN B. HASKIN . ' " A curious sequel to this same evening happened while I was in London in May of 1867. I was invited to a club of young Englishmen who had been the ...
... once more associated . " Yours , very truly , J. W. FORNEY . " Hon . JOHN B. HASKIN . ' " A curious sequel to this same evening happened while I was in London in May of 1867. I was invited to a club of young Englishmen who had been the ...
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... once , when I bore a message to him from the Senate , he detained me with some amusing sketch of Western life . He seemed to have read the character , and to know the peculiarities of every leading man in Congress and the country , and ...
... once , when I bore a message to him from the Senate , he detained me with some amusing sketch of Western life . He seemed to have read the character , and to know the peculiarities of every leading man in Congress and the country , and ...
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... once a logician and a declaimer . His sharp tenor voice , his incisive sentences and ready wit , his fine figure , were admirably re - enforced by acute reasoning powers and admirable legal training . A rare speci- men of the same ...
... once a logician and a declaimer . His sharp tenor voice , his incisive sentences and ready wit , his fine figure , were admirably re - enforced by acute reasoning powers and admirable legal training . A rare speci- men of the same ...
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