Life or death turned on his skill with the pistol; and he knew that Burr, here, was his superior.

Aaron Burr is a child of many prayers, and therefore there is hope that he may yet be effectually called.

We venture to say, that two thirds of its readers will close the volume with an indefinite contradictory opinion that Burr was a sort of villanous saint, and that the other third, by no means the most inattentive readers, will not be able to form any opinion whatever.

The duty of electing a President then devolved on the House of Representatives, which after a long and bitter struggle elected Jefferson President; Burr then became Vice President.

Aaron Burr, however, is an exception.

An acorn-burr is just the thing to worry a restive horse, if put in such a place; but Joe and Fuz had hardly expected their "little joke" to be so very successful as it was.

It is usual to speak of him as a remarkable conversationalist; but if by that term we mean to describe, a person who is distinguished for his eloquence, grace of expression, information, force and originality of thought, Burr was not a good converser.

In the contest with Jefferson, Parton insists that Burr acted honorably; in the duel with Hamilton, Burr was the injured party; in his amours he was not a bad man; so that, although we are told that Burr had faults, we look in vain for any exhibition of them.

Her every movement, too, was as full of grace as Cordelia Burr's was exactly the reverse.

The statement, that Burr was the rival of Washington and Adams for the Presidency, is absurd.

Colonel Burr, one of the most brilliant and distinguished men of the New Republic, and Colonel de Frontignac, who had won for himself laurels in the corps of La Fayette, during the recent revolutionary struggle, with his brilliant, accomplished wife, were all unexpected and distinguished additions to the circle.

And soon the house that had kept it warm Was tossed about by the autumn storm; The stem was cracked, the old house fell, And the chestnut burr was an empty shell.

It was he who defeated by his quiet influence the political aspirations of Burr, when Burr was the most popular man in the country,a great wire-puller, a prince of politicians, a great organizer of political forces, like Van Buren and Thurlow Weed,whose eloquent conversation and fascinating manner few men could resist, to say nothing of women.

He was governed equally by the advice of both, since they worked in different spheres, and were not rivals in the sense that Burr and Jefferson were,that is, leaders in the same party and competitors for the same office.

Burr had been Vice-President of the United States, and was a brilliant and able man, of imposing personality, whose intrigues in the West attracted an attention altogether disproportionate to their real weight.