Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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Page 187
... Give me liberty or give me death " -and the world pauses to contem- plate the scene . Napoleon stood on the bridge at Arcola , a heroic figure entirely surrounded by sizzling bullets . Grant does nothing of the kind . He passes in and ...
... Give me liberty or give me death " -and the world pauses to contem- plate the scene . Napoleon stood on the bridge at Arcola , a heroic figure entirely surrounded by sizzling bullets . Grant does nothing of the kind . He passes in and ...
Page 393
... give Johnson sufficient time to appoint some other man in his place if he decided not to hold it himself . That would have forced Stan- ton to go to the courts to have himself reinstated . In an angry letter Johnson accused Grant of not ...
... give Johnson sufficient time to appoint some other man in his place if he decided not to hold it himself . That would have forced Stan- ton to go to the courts to have himself reinstated . In an angry letter Johnson accused Grant of not ...
Page 515
... give in the preparation of my forth- coming book , I have voluntarily stipulated as a small compensation for his various services rendered to me , pro- posed , and do propose and bind myself , to give him , Gen. Badeau , five thousand ...
... give in the preparation of my forth- coming book , I have voluntarily stipulated as a small compensation for his various services rendered to me , pro- posed , and do propose and bind myself , to give him , Gen. Badeau , five thousand ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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