The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth to the Present TimeJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1872 - 548 pages |
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... tion in writing , and one class in grammar ; but such schools , forty years ago , were rare . The exercises of the morning were concluded with a general spell , the teacher giving out the words from a spell- ing - book , and the pupils ...
... tion in writing , and one class in grammar ; but such schools , forty years ago , were rare . The exercises of the morning were concluded with a general spell , the teacher giving out the words from a spell- ing - book , and the pupils ...
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... tion with a stranger . The stranger , struck with the awkwardness and singular appearance of the boy , took him for little better than an idiot , and was inclined to laugh at the idea of lending books to ' such a fellow as that . The ...
... tion with a stranger . The stranger , struck with the awkwardness and singular appearance of the boy , took him for little better than an idiot , and was inclined to laugh at the idea of lending books to ' such a fellow as that . The ...
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... tion of Horace was , in short , of a nature to leave his mind , not un- biased in favor of orthodoxy -- that had been almost impossible in New England thirty years ago - but as nearly in equilibrium on the subject , in a state as ...
... tion of Horace was , in short , of a nature to leave his mind , not un- biased in favor of orthodoxy -- that had been almost impossible in New England thirty years ago - but as nearly in equilibrium on the subject , in a state as ...
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... tion of the Faith which he adheres to and lives by . And though Horace Greeley has occupied himself little with things spiritual , confining himself , by a necessity of his nature , chiefly to the pro- motion of material interests , yet ...
... tion of the Faith which he adheres to and lives by . And though Horace Greeley has occupied himself little with things spiritual , confining himself , by a necessity of his nature , chiefly to the pro- motion of material interests , yet ...
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... tion of the rustic and ludicrous , and the apparition had come upon him so suddenly , that the amiable gardener could scarcely keep from laughing . He restrained himself , however , and replied , " Yes , I'm the man . " Whereupon the ...
... tion of the rustic and ludicrous , and the apparition had come upon him so suddenly , that the amiable gardener could scarcely keep from laughing . He restrained himself , however , and replied , " Yes , I'm the man . " Whereupon the ...
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