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" ... able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution, would illuminate... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 369
edited by - 1926
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 342 pages
...a nature has beeii able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of...would come in sometimes to keep our understandings upon a painful stretch for a short while, and leave us to take to pieces his close, rapid, theoretical,...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 13

1842 - 572 pages
...his ease on the sofa, shaking it with burst after burst of laughter, telling stories, cracking jokes, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution. Such is his private boon companionship. Abroad, however, he is the stern, plain-dressed, grave republican...
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Personal Memorials of Daniel Webster ...

Charles Lanman - 1852 - 82 pages
...his ease on the sofa, shaking it with burst after burst of laughter, telling stories, cracking jokes, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution. Such is his private boon companionship. Abroad, however, he is the stern, plain dressed, grave republican;...
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The Private Life of Daniel Webster

Charles Lanman - 1852 - 224 pages
...his ease on the sofa, shaking it with burst after burst of laughter, telling stories, cracking jokes, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical, part of one's constitution. Such was his private boon companionship. Abroad, however, he was the stern, plain-dressed, grave republican...
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The North American Review, Volume 101

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 686 pages
...a nature has been able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of...castiron man, who looks as if he had never been born and could never be extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understandings on a ] fijii'i 1 stretch...
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Famous Americans of Recent Times

James Parton - 1867 - 496 pages
...a nature has been able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of...castiron man, who looks as if he had never been born and could never be extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understandings on a painful stretch...
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Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries, with Selections from His Speeches

Lucius P. Little - 1887 - 682 pages
...wilh the burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the local part of one's constitution, would illuminate an evening...never could be extinguished, would come in sometimes, and keep our understandings upon a painful stretch for a short while, and leave us to take to pieces...
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Ben Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries, with Selections from His Speeches

Lucius P. Little - 1887 - 678 pages
...attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with the burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the local part of one's constitution, would illuminate an evening now and then. Mr. Calhoun — the cast-iron...
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The Great American Book of Biography, Illustrious Americans: Their Lives and ...

1896 - 752 pages
...a nature has been able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of...cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and could never be extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understanding on a painful stretch...
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Noble Living and Grand Achievement: Giants of the Republic, Embracing the ...

Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1896 - 750 pages
...a nature has been able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of...cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and could never be extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understanding on a painful stretch...
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