The light and dark of the Rebellion [by C.E. Lester]. |
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... Europe ; but all ready to carry out the dreams of personal , manly , ennobling social life . The best minds and the warmest hearts on the other side of the water understood America . They knew our history , and they burned with ...
... Europe ; but all ready to carry out the dreams of personal , manly , ennobling social life . The best minds and the warmest hearts on the other side of the water understood America . They knew our history , and they burned with ...
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... Europe it looked like the beginning of our na- tional end , —an irrevocable leap to ruin . cover . Was it death ? or was it fever with delirium ? It was all ! The only question now , after two years of struggle , which blot out all the ...
... Europe it looked like the beginning of our na- tional end , —an irrevocable leap to ruin . cover . Was it death ? or was it fever with delirium ? It was all ! The only question now , after two years of struggle , which blot out all the ...
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... European cathe- dral by moonlight , than through a place for sick soldiers . The silence greater than speech , the suffering unexpressed , the heroism which did not utter one complaint , the complete- ness of the whole system of care ...
... European cathe- dral by moonlight , than through a place for sick soldiers . The silence greater than speech , the suffering unexpressed , the heroism which did not utter one complaint , the complete- ness of the whole system of care ...
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... Europe . There was no watch - word ; no vesper - chime stealing softly on the evening air ; no hollow chant nor monkish prayer in gloomy chapel ; no moon - lit watch on the overlooking tower . No one of all these . It was grander ...
... Europe . There was no watch - word ; no vesper - chime stealing softly on the evening air ; no hollow chant nor monkish prayer in gloomy chapel ; no moon - lit watch on the overlooking tower . No one of all these . It was grander ...
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... Europe in a blaze , and launched a million Crusaders on the shores of Asia . Who has forgotten the thrilling scene which Scott de- scribes of the sermon of the youthful Scotch chaplain , Mackelbriar , when the small but determined band ...
... Europe in a blaze , and launched a million Crusaders on the shores of Asia . Who has forgotten the thrilling scene which Scott de- scribes of the sermon of the youthful Scotch chaplain , Mackelbriar , when the small but determined band ...
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