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In his death a great and salutary force was subtracted from the public life of the country, and especially from the public life of the great State to whose history he had contributed so large and noble a part.
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Hoar mourns the loss of a significant figure in public life, emphasizing the impact of his death.
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But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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