Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Page 13
... fires . The house , so gloomy during the months of snow , lay in a crystalline sea of sunshine . The warm odors of the reviving earth drifted through the open doors and windows . Along the road came wagons creaking heavily , with dusty ...
... fires . The house , so gloomy during the months of snow , lay in a crystalline sea of sunshine . The warm odors of the reviving earth drifted through the open doors and windows . Along the road came wagons creaking heavily , with dusty ...
Page 19
... fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing in their eyes , of log - houses , of wheat growing boisterously in fields full of stumps , of Bibles and poor liquor , of sharp trades , of illiterate lawyers , of hell - fire preachers and ...
... fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing in their eyes , of log - houses , of wheat growing boisterously in fields full of stumps , of Bibles and poor liquor , of sharp trades , of illiterate lawyers , of hell - fire preachers and ...
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... fire of an early romance is an invention of novelists , and its tacit acceptance as a principle of biographical structure is a proof of the pressure of the novel on other forms of intellectual expression . As a matter of truth , large ...
... fire of an early romance is an invention of novelists , and its tacit acceptance as a principle of biographical structure is a proof of the pressure of the novel on other forms of intellectual expression . As a matter of truth , large ...
Page 28
... fire- arms as earnestly as a country club group of our day dis- cusses golf balls and automobiles . Even ten - year - old boys became expert executioners of birds and rabbits . Ulysses , with his horror of game - hunting , must have ...
... fire- arms as earnestly as a country club group of our day dis- cusses golf balls and automobiles . Even ten - year - old boys became expert executioners of birds and rabbits . Ulysses , with his horror of game - hunting , must have ...
Page 50
... fire , as printed tables of ranges and distances are thoughtfully provided by the War Department for their use . It is as simple as looking up a number in a telephone directory . It seems better , from the standpoint of common sense ...
... fire , as printed tables of ranges and distances are thoughtfully provided by the War Department for their use . It is as simple as looking up a number in a telephone directory . It seems better , from the standpoint of common sense ...
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