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 27
... force . Whenever he found himself in circumstances which made it necessary for him to turn his conceptions into abstract ideas he had to readjust his mental focus with fumbling and effort . His cosmos was composed of streams of physical ...
... force . Whenever he found himself in circumstances which made it necessary for him to turn his conceptions into abstract ideas he had to readjust his mental focus with fumbling and effort . His cosmos was composed of streams of physical ...
Page 28
... forces in motion . This material world was so near to him , and he was so com- pletely in harmony with it , that he might be depicted truth- fully - yet symbolically - in the posture of a man standing eternally with a spadeful of earth ...
... forces in motion . This material world was so near to him , and he was so com- pletely in harmony with it , that he might be depicted truth- fully - yet symbolically - in the posture of a man standing eternally with a spadeful of earth ...
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... force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to its processes , and the effort was somewhat like that of trying to make an automobile engineer out of a man who wants to be a physician . Near the close ...
... force of West Point had to struggle here with raw material that was not adapted to its processes , and the effort was somewhat like that of trying to make an automobile engineer out of a man who wants to be a physician . Near the close ...
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... force with an underlying pacifist philosophy ? My opinion is that his mind was that of a mechanic or engineer , rather than that of a soldier . He was constructive by nature a builder and worker in material forms . The military academy ...
... force with an underlying pacifist philosophy ? My opinion is that his mind was that of a mechanic or engineer , rather than that of a soldier . He was constructive by nature a builder and worker in material forms . The military academy ...
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... force was called , was under the command of General Zachary Taylor . Its total effectives were less than three thousand men , all of them regulars . They were good troops , but too few in num- ber for a decisive invasion of Mexico ...
... force was called , was under the command of General Zachary Taylor . Its total effectives were less than three thousand men , all of them regulars . They were good troops , but too few in num- ber for a decisive invasion of Mexico ...
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