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1152. CARTER (Landon), Speeches of.

—Landon Carter's speeches, like his writings,
were dull, vapid, verbose, egotistical, smooth
as the lullaby of the nurse, and commanding,
like that, the repose only of the hearer.—
To William Wirt. Washington ed. vi, 486. Ford ed., ix, 474.
(M. 1815)