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Page 153
... battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand , or the ten thousand , with great composure ; but after the battle these scenes are distressing , and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering ...
... battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand , or the ten thousand , with great composure ; but after the battle these scenes are distressing , and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering ...
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... battle covering a vast space of broken ground , when each division , brigade , regiment , and even company , naturally and honestly believes that it was the focus of the whole affair ! Each of them won the battle . None ever lost . That ...
... battle covering a vast space of broken ground , when each division , brigade , regiment , and even company , naturally and honestly believes that it was the focus of the whole affair ! Each of them won the battle . None ever lost . That ...
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... battle of Waterloo , in which Stendhal had taken part ; but Tol- stoy , who had also been influenced by this , only started on War and Peace after De Forest had begun Miss Rav- enel . When War and Peace appeared in English in 1886 and ...
... battle of Waterloo , in which Stendhal had taken part ; but Tol- stoy , who had also been influenced by this , only started on War and Peace after De Forest had begun Miss Rav- enel . When War and Peace appeared in English in 1886 and ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
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