Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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... fact that Hannah Grant was a pious Methodist . Her religious faith was so profound that it carried her to the verge ... facts . That she was a good wife , a woman of piety and virtue , a person of common sense , with curious lapses into ...
... fact that Hannah Grant was a pious Methodist . Her religious faith was so profound that it carried her to the verge ... facts . That she was a good wife , a woman of piety and virtue , a person of common sense , with curious lapses into ...
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... fact as the weekly report of a traveling shoe salesman ; but then one does not expect either generals or shoe salesmen to write like poets . When he wrote his Memoirs he was in his last days , and very ill . That fact , however , would ...
... fact as the weekly report of a traveling shoe salesman ; but then one does not expect either generals or shoe salesmen to write like poets . When he wrote his Memoirs he was in his last days , and very ill . That fact , however , would ...
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... fact that the book which I am now engaged upon will be in competition with Badeau's history of my campaigns , which was written with my con- sent and with the expectation that it would take the place of all I would have to say on the ...
... fact that the book which I am now engaged upon will be in competition with Badeau's history of my campaigns , which was written with my con- sent and with the expectation that it would take the place of all I would have to say on the ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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