Not content with the exalted office to which he had suddenly fallen heir, he now began looking for higher honours; and when it came time to select candidates for governor, he invoked the tactics that won him a place in the United States Senate.
This passage describes Burr's aspirations for higher political office and his strategic maneuvers.
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The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
Let us agree to put contentions aside and complete our task.
His lightest word, sent thrilling to the rim of a vast audience, swayed it with the magic of control.
He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
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