The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary for General Knowledge, Volumen8George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton and Company, 1883 |
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Página 224 - I was one day called to the City Hotel, where two strangers introduced themselves as Thurlow Weed and Lewis Benedict, of Albany. They told me that a cheap campaign paper of a peculiar stamp at Albany had been resolved on, and that I had been selected to edit it. The announcement might well be deemed flattering by one who had never even...