Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 64
... became the backbone of the slave system in the half - century that preceded the Civil War , was a negligible industry in the 1790's . Before the invention of the cotton gin the task of separating one pound of cotton from its seed ...
... became the backbone of the slave system in the half - century that preceded the Civil War , was a negligible industry in the 1790's . Before the invention of the cotton gin the task of separating one pound of cotton from its seed ...
Page 120
... became a gray emptiness , like a rugged landscape covered with fog . Glibness of speech , combined with a sharp introspective egotism , might have saved him , for men who can talk for hours on end about themselves are able to endure any ...
... became a gray emptiness , like a rugged landscape covered with fog . Glibness of speech , combined with a sharp introspective egotism , might have saved him , for men who can talk for hours on end about themselves are able to endure any ...
Page 187
... became very deaf when his son asked him for a loan of a few hundred dollars . As for his brothers , they thought they had already done enough . Still there remained Colonel Dent , his father - in - law . Oh , it was no use to approach ...
... became very deaf when his son asked him for a loan of a few hundred dollars . As for his brothers , they thought they had already done enough . Still there remained Colonel Dent , his father - in - law . Oh , it was no use to approach ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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