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Page 549
... Cable suddenly failed . There was a tradition in the family that two of his steamboats had burned , and these years were in many ways calamitous for New Orleans . There were cholera and yellow fever , and the worst flood in the history ...
... Cable suddenly failed . There was a tradition in the family that two of his steamboats had burned , and these years were in many ways calamitous for New Orleans . There were cholera and yellow fever , and the worst flood in the history ...
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... Cable continue to be so incapable of flexibility as Mark Twain had supposed it to be . It is admitted by Hearn in the letter I have quoted , that " Cable is more liberal - minded than his creed ; he has also rare analytical powers on a ...
... Cable continue to be so incapable of flexibility as Mark Twain had supposed it to be . It is admitted by Hearn in the letter I have quoted , that " Cable is more liberal - minded than his creed ; he has also rare analytical powers on a ...
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... Cable as long - six years- as Madame Bovary had taken Flaubert . But the ex- penditure of first - rate powers on situations which are artificial must become , to the admirer of Cable , most depressing and even repellent . When the ...
... Cable as long - six years- as Madame Bovary had taken Flaubert . But the ex- penditure of first - rate powers on situations which are artificial must become , to the admirer of Cable , most depressing and even repellent . When the ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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