Famous Americans
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共 41 段- "From first to last I have uniformly pursued the just and
- The war being ended and the Federal party extinct, upon the
- The history of Henry Clay's Presidential aspirations and def
- "I have seen some public service, passed through many
- Of the three men whom we have named, Daniel Webster was inco
- His success at college giving him ascendency at home, he emp
- "Columbia stoops not to tyrants; her spirit will never
- Yes: if the conqueror bad the moral feeling which inspired t
- From 1832 to the end of his life it appears to us that Danie
- In surveying the life and works of this eminent and gifted m
- June 22d, 1807, at noon, the United States frigate Chesapeak
- With this speech before him and before the country, Mr. Calh
- He was, of course, soon involved in a snarl of contradiction
- "Mr. Clay sitting upright on the sofa, with his snuffbox
- Mr. Calhoun does not tell us who is to _bestow_ this preciou
- "And can this National Legislature be competent to make laws
- In March, 1790, Mr. Jefferson reached New York, after his re
- Obviously, an antique of this pattern was out of place as a
- He obtained some relief at length, and became a regular comm
- This is an unpleasing picture of a citizen of polite and ami
- His neighbors, the merchants of Philadelphia, deemed him a l
- When he had opened it, and was about to begin to read, he ch
- The income of the Girard estate is now about two hundred tho
- Between his landing at Halifax and the appearance of the fir
- "'By speculating in real estate. I bought three hundred lots
- What are we to say of the public that has so resolutely sust
- This subject, however, is beginning to be understood, and of
- Upon examining his life-preserver, an improvement in the inf
- And, after all, it was an accident that revealed it; but an
- Poor Richard informs us that Necessity never makes a good ba
- We enter an edifice, upon the interior of which the upholste
- This apparent contradiction between the spirit of his preach
- There are some reasons for thinking that the men and the org
- The officer, fearing to be carried off to New Jersey, where
- In those days an educated woman was among the rarest of rari
- Not so the younger and newer portion of the population. We l
- Mr. Madison was President then. In other days her father had
- This roistering village butcher and his worthy, much-endurin
- In the mean time, however, he could do little for his new-fo
- In the next place, his ventures to China were sometimes exce
- In 1832, one of his daughters having married a European nobl