. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. >jiijj^^^^^?J?J^J^^^^^^^^^J^ .^ A Distinguished Representative in the Councils of the HE American orator and statesman,Daniel Web
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. >jiijj^^^^^?J?J^J^^^^^^^^^J^ .^ A Distinguished Representative in the Councils of the HE American orator and statesman,Daniel Webster, second son of a farmerin moderate circumstances, was born atSalisbury (now Franklin), N. H., in earli-est educa-tion wasapparentlyderivedprincipally fromthe instruction ofhis parents. Atfourteen years ofage he was sent to thePhillips - Exeter acad-emy. After remainingfor a while in the fam-ily of Rev. Mr. Wood, at Boscawen, heentered Dartmouth college in 1797,earning his living and fitting his brotherEzekiel for college by teaching schoolduring the winter months. As a stu-dent he appears to have been earnestand industrious, and a persistent readero. history and general English Already he began to manifestsomething of the oratorical powers thatin after-life stirred senators and thepeople, in his addresses before collegesocieties, some of which were pub-lished, and throughout his collegecareer he was the foremost man of his class. In 1801 he graduated, and immediately afterwards hebegan to study law at Salisbury. Du
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