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As we walked on, to keep an engagement to dine, we thought of the late words of that eminent patriot: 'If the days of my usefulness, as I have too much reason to fear, be indeed passed, I desire not to linger an impotent spectator of the oft-scanned field of life. I have never looked upon old age, deprived of the faculty of enjoyment, of intellectual perceptions and energies, with any sympathy; and for such I think the day of fate can not arrive too soon.' One can hardly choose but drop a tear over such a remark from such a man.
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and scathed with many a fiery conflict, Henry Clay gradually descended toward the tomb.
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During this period, says one of his Kentucky colleagues,
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On the evening previous to his departure, writes his excellent pastor and faithful attendant, Rev. Dr. Butler,