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If a Man Graduates 47 Again , I look another way I can see Fort Putt , now frowning far above , a stern monument of a sterner age , which seems placed there on purpose to tell us of the glorious deeds of our fathers , and to bid us to ...
If a Man Graduates 47 Again , I look another way I can see Fort Putt , now frowning far above , a stern monument of a sterner age , which seems placed there on purpose to tell us of the glorious deeds of our fathers , and to bid us to ...
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I say " seems , ” for his statement of the matter is so loose and vague that it is difficult to grasp what he meant . At any rate , Lincoln , whom he saw and heard from a distance as a spectator in a crowd - made a great impression on ...
I say " seems , ” for his statement of the matter is so loose and vague that it is difficult to grasp what he meant . At any rate , Lincoln , whom he saw and heard from a distance as a spectator in a crowd - made a great impression on ...
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But he thought he had — and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had no experience in business affairs . He could have lived very well on his five thousand dollars a year in Galena , but he ...
But he thought he had — and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had no experience in business affairs . He could have lived very well on his five thousand dollars a year in Galena , but he ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant A Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Garden Publishing Company, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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