Book/Printed Material Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices of other matters.
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Image 1 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … Pea tae Let atite bain hfe epeaical et ania sei Ne of Anh eres- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 2 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … sR aL PL iLe ay Li- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 3 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices …- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 4 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices …- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 5 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … fi 4 7 an j 7 be- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 6 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices …- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 7 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … im SKETCHES wen OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS DRAWN FROM THE LIVING AND THE DEAD WITH NOTICES OF OTHER MATTERS yp BY IGNATIUS LOYOLA ROBERTSON Kee Bs De A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 8 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … A y f Southern District of NewYork ss BE IT RE MEMBERED That onthe eleventh day of June A D 1230 in the Soth year of the Independence of the United States…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 9 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … CONTENTS LETTER I Webster LETTER Il Calhoun ZA LETTER Il Everett LETTER IV Livingston LETTER V Jones 2 LETTER VI Randolph LETTER VII Johnson a f 4 LETTER VIII Dwight ik LETTER…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 10 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … ey CONTENTS LETTER XII The Presidents House 5 110 LETTER XIII Library of CongressColumbian InstituteLit erature of WashingtonPeriodicals 117 LETTER XIV Colonization SocietyThe ClergyMedical SchoolOrphan AsylumTyber CreekMan ners and CustomsCollegeConvent of Vis…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 11 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … DEDICATION Ce ieniineiaal TO COLONEL A WARD OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY N Y DEaR Sr I pepicare this little work to you re membering with pleasure and gratitude your kindness in rendering me…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 12 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … us DEDICATION They say that you never think of a man howe ver great his virtues and his talents when he is out of office that sometimes at the death of some…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 13 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … DEDICATION vii triot writer should never be shut to the faults of men in power whether their station or authority be executive legislative ministerial or subal tern I write my creed openly…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 14 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … viii DEDICATION disposition and that love to do kind things which secures the good mans benison and the orphans prayer and without which talents office and fame are empty names Most truly…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 15 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … SKETCHES LETTER I Washington Jan 1830 Dear Sir You are among the few in your coun try who take an interest in the affairs of this and in compliance with your request…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 16 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 6 WEBSTER remarks upon the good folks of this country I shall not confine myself to any regular or der but give you my opinions as they arise im my mind believing…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 17 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 7 appearance of sternness but the general ex pression of his face after it is properly examin ed is rather mild and amiable than otherwise His movements in the house and…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 18 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … g WEBSTER munity about him he made an effort and sent him to an academy to prepare himself for college The sagacious eye of his instructer was not long in seeing his…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 19 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 3 prophetically of the talents of his pupil Some political essays he wrote in the papers at that time attracted the attention of men of judg ment and these productions were…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 20 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 10 WEBSTER good school for him No doubt it was a good thing for him to be under the necessity of con tending alone with his seniors men who were at the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 21 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … _ WEBSTER ll a profound knowledge of our national interests He made a most powerful speech in support of these resolutions portions of which were re printed at that time and which…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 22 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 12 WEBSTER announced that the orator had arrived but as soon as the meeting was organized another arose to make some remarks upon the object of the caucus he was heard with…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 23 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 13 question and proved as far as reason could prove the superiority of those of his own choice but the gentleman traveller who was a very good judge has often said…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 24 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 14 WEBSTER party times his reasonings would have been irresistible The question was lost but when the subject came up again after the peace of 1815 the advocates of the Bank did…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 25 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 15 on reflection he generally made amends for any pain he had given There seemed in his day a common law in NewHampshire as well as in England that every witness…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 26 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 16 WEBSTER a few were pledged to Mr Putnam who was a most unexceptionable candidate In this state of things caucuses were held and at each the speakers struggled to say the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 27 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 17 same time made himself master of the history of his country a branch of learning in which most of the American politicians are greatly deficient In this latter course he…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 28 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 18 WEBSTER x the Athenians and for aught I know is likely to last as long for fifteen years it has been wax ing apace without feeling any wanings of pub lic…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 29 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 19 stroyed the inspiration of the muse and laid her lifeless at the feet of reason That pow er of the mind whatever metaphysicians may call it that looks over the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 30 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 20 WEBSTER ter all the praise which has been bestowed up on them his most felicitous labours He can not lash himself into passion in the closet he requires excitement that he…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 31 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 9 rations and passing time was announcing that half a century had elapsed since the roar of battle had broke over the sacred ground the corner stone of a time defying…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 32 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … g9 WEBSTER His manners at the bar and in the delibe rate assembly are peculiar He begins te state his points in a low voice and in a slow cool cautious and…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 33 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 293 which was the dayspring in a pure vernal atmosphere full of health and beauty nor does he labour for the sweetness of Fisher Ames whose heart on all great occasions…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 34 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 24 WEBSTER ominum ora atque occulos esse conversos yet from his lofty carriage his haughty brow his swelling veins and curled lip you would judge that he had no small share of…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 35 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 25 miliar however intricate plain and witha sort of supernatural power he possesses his hearers and controls their opinions His friends yield at once with a delighted willing ness and his…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 36 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 26 WEBSTER preceding generation that of establishing na tional independence and agreeing on a form of popular government Mr Webster has every advantage for intel lectual discipline having been born among the…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 37 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER or king out of the mind that vanity and conceit that partial friends are apt to infuse into for ward boys The college in which Mr Webster was educated is most…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 38 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … 28 WEBSTER ambition Even the martyrs bosom is not free from ambition he looks to the crown of glory in another world That Mr Webster has fail ings no one will deny…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 39 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … WEBSTER 29 eaters who exist always near a great man and who are ready to lie fume and cry aloud in his praise disgust honest admiration and of fend common sense no…- Contributor: Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo)
- Date: 1830
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Image 40 of Sketches of public characters. Drawn from the living and the dead. With notices … LETTER fi Washington 1830 Dear Sir Tue Vice President Mr Catnowun now occupies a large space in the eye of the na tion He is indeed a very considerable man in the…- 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
Online Format
- online text
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