"Prairie state" Quotes from Famous Books
... illustrious by their predecessors had lost nothing in their hands; men of New England birth, thus dividing in number the incumbency in succession to Ellsworth, while he who has but just entered upon that service, proud of the Prairie State from whence he comes, has never ceased to regard with affection that particular portion of the Fatherland in which he first ... — Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various |