Book/Printed Material Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices of other matters.
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Image 41 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … CALHOUN 3 department and of a great people The par simonious were alarmed at the extent of his expenditures and the very prudent thought him lavish of the public monies still the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 42 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 32 CALHOUN Mr Calhoun is now prominently before the public He has high claims and many friends but he nor any one else can divine his fate The changing winds are not…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 43 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER If _ Washington 18380 Dear Sr Mr Everrerr you have seen and therefore I need not describe his person to you when in Europe he was as you know much caressed…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 44 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 34 EVERETT twoin Germany He set out on this tour with all the ardour of a young man panting for knowledge and ambitious of surpassing all in his accomplishments In his absence…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 45 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … EVERETT 35 raciness about his productions that mark one born and bred among the Muses In fact he was a scholar by profession and wore the lau rel among all the lettered…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 46 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 36 EVERETT I am constrained to confess that there is no little ignorance in the National assembly and that learning does not always receive its due honour Mr Everetts eloquence is charac…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 47 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER IV 1830 Washington Dear Sir Evwarp Livrnestron of the Senate is a hale vigorous man past the grand cli macteric He has been active in _profes sional and political pursuits for…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 48 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 38 LIVINGSTON effective energetic executive officer and that there never was a better judicial officer on the bench than Edward Livingston He was succeeded by De Witt Clinton When the United States…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 49 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LIVINGSTON 39 nations and read every treatise on crime and punishment that the lettered world affords and in addition to this held a correspondence with all the philanthropists of the age nothing…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 50 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … an _ LIVINGSTON one who punishes in mercy making discrimi nations in the nature of punishments as she discovers differences in the nature of crimes If Mr Livingston does not in his…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 51 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER V Washington Jan 1830 Dear Sir Mr Wirt you have heard of as the Author of the British spy and several other works which have been read and admired in this…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 52 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 42 WIRT to nature Many of his intellectual portraits are of the first order of genius and some of his narratives are wrought up to a dramatic affect His often supposed that…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 53 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WIRT 43 Wirt was familiarly known as an advocate but the good people of the East had never heard him in a cause until last year In an equity cause of importance…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 54 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 44 JONES countenance a slow low voice with a head covered with thick hair growing rapidly grey and with eyes fixed upon his papers talking to the court as if they were…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 55 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … JONES 45 respect for General Jones and never lose a word of his argument however long he may be in acause He meets the arguments of his opponents with more ingenuity if…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 56 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 46 JONES absence is an unconsciousness of any thought and may belong to one grade of intellect as well as to itor There are no uniform symptoms of mental greatness it shows…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 57 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER VI Washington Jan 1830 Dear Sir I have often seen that most singular man you enquire after and often heard him speak Many of the sketches of his person have been…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 58 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 48 RANDOLPH gers birdclawlike and in debate he makes them very expressive His hair is dark thin and lank and lies close to his head His move ments are rapid and awkward…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 59 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … RANDOLPH 49 eral history but saving and excepting the an nals of his own state he knows not much of American history His classical knowledge has been overrated In the common latin…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 60 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 50 RANDOLPH enroachments on the judiciary Randolph came out of the contest without a single laurel He has notwithstanding his pretentions to consistency been a politician that no party could for a…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 61 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … RANDOLPH 51 some of the best men the country ever produ ced and praised many that no body else ever heard of ten miles from their native village He has like the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 62 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 52 RANDOLPH would have the courage to fight for it that is if he could have his own way of fighting On the whole survey of his character Mr Randolph may be…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 63 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER Wir Washington Jan 1830 Dear Sir Cou Ricnarp M Jounson now of the House of Representatives was last year of the Senate He is about fifty one or two years old…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 64 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … D4 JOHNSON man when living had ackee nothing He was dead and it was right that the nation should remember the wisdom of one so generous Col Johnson never gave up the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 65 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … JOHNSON 55 then ignorant of his rank but at once surmis ed it from the instant retreat of the whole bo dy of Indians and the terrible how that ac companied it…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 66 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 56 JOHNSON a he has never deserted his Cause but has gone on to call the attention of the philoso phic and wise to the sufferings of the unfortu nate debtors throughout…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 67 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER VIII Washington Jan 1830 Dear Sir Mr Dwienr is from the mountains of Massachusetts The pure skies of Berkshire have given his person an athletic frame but his pelished manner and…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 68 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 58 DWIGHT _ for a great speaker When any high respon sibility is upon him he is powerful in debate Mr Dwight is a popular man in the House for he is…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 69 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … _ BERRIEN 59 is a most eloquent speaker In the senate he was a model for chaste free beautiful elocu tion He seemed to be the only man that Webster softened his…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 70 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 60 MDUFFIE es we oughly examined It is time ie work was done The present is the hour to begin and the zeal of the future may atone for the apathy of…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 71 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … hi e 0 DAVIS 61 his errors His late reports on several sub jects prove thathe i is industrious and that he spares no pains in his researches and all be lieve…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 72 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 62 DAVIS powerful mind have neler on friends and opponents His speeches are listened to and read for the information they contain and they never offend taste by any extrava gance of…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 73 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … if LETTER IX Washington 1830 Dear Sr Tue rapid growth of this country has been the wonder of the world but the causes of this growth have been overlooked or misunderstood It…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 74 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 64 THE PRESIDENTS at this moment my remarks will be principally confined to the current events and to living men but occasionally shall take a limited re trospection It has often been…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 75 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … THE PRESIDENTS 65 portunities for exertions that no man ever had before him or can have after him He was raised up for the times He was a warrior of that peculiar…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 76 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 66 THE PRESIDENTS There had begun to be less patriotism and more management among politicians than when the government was first organized Party spirit had increased and entered more into the pro…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 77 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … THE PRESIDENTS 67 Ff fle as a sage whom all men of all parties sought to learn the history of past events and to hear him discourse on matters of government His…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 78 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … x 68 THE PRESIDENTS now passed away and are forgotten and who from a momentary political or pecuniary eleva tion began to think that some way might be de vised to give…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 79 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … THE PRESIDENTS 69 city he taught and in a most extraordinary de gree took the people along with him and re tained his office and the place he held in their affection…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 80 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … w 0 HE PRESIDENTS Burr had in him the elements of a great soi dier and a profound Statesman He was six teen years the junior of his opponent full of ac…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
About this Item
Title
- Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices of other matters.
Names
- Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838.
Created / Published
- New-York : Published by E. Bliss, 1830.
Headings
- - United States--Biography
- - Statesmen--United States--Biography
- - Washington (D.C.)--History
- - Library of Congress--History
Notes
- - Checklist Amer. imprints 2139
- - Also available in digital form.
- - Recat. to AACR2: vj14 9-28-99.
- - LAC tnb 2020-09-22 no edits (1 card)
Medium
- viii, [5]-259 p. ; 18 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E339 .K68
Library of Congress Control Number
- 05037659
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- online text
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