The American Statesman or Illustrations of the Life and Character of Daniel Webster
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781417957071
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: historical; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - U.S; Historical - General
First sentence: ABOUT sixty-five years ago, a man of stalwart form, broad shoulders, and swarthy complexion, was riding through Salisbury, in New Hampshire, on horseback, carrying with him a puny little boy, with dark features, sparkling black eyes, a round, projecting forehead, and dressed in coarse, homespun clothes, with two little, shoeless feet projecting from beneath.