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 14
... held herself forever apart from the ways and deeds of the world . This is , however , only a conjecture , a guess at her personality , made in the effort to reconstruct it from a handful of withered facts . That she was a good wife , a ...
... held herself forever apart from the ways and deeds of the world . This is , however , only a conjecture , a guess at her personality , made in the effort to reconstruct it from a handful of withered facts . That she was a good wife , a ...
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... held fast and won the money . " Why , that pony is slick as an apple , " was his only comment , as - covered with dust and blushes - he backed away from the crowd . Another adventure was with an unbroken horse which he had harnessed to ...
... held fast and won the money . " Why , that pony is slick as an apple , " was his only comment , as - covered with dust and blushes - he backed away from the crowd . Another adventure was with an unbroken horse which he had harnessed to ...
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... held in his soul the residue of its reced- ing threat . He never could eat meat that had the least drop of blood exuding from it . Steaks had to be burned to a hard crisp before he would touch them . He was the lifelong despair of cooks ...
... held in his soul the residue of its reced- ing threat . He never could eat meat that had the least drop of blood exuding from it . Steaks had to be burned to a hard crisp before he would touch them . He was the lifelong despair of cooks ...
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... held the tenth place in mathematics among the fifty - three men remaining in his class . This year he stood forty - fourth in French , and forty - sixth in ethics . There were two or three other subjects in which he showed an interest ...
... held the tenth place in mathematics among the fifty - three men remaining in his class . This year he stood forty - fourth in French , and forty - sixth in ethics . There were two or three other subjects in which he showed an interest ...
Page 66
... held about the same place in popular esteem that is occupied to - day by radical socialists and communists . The first definite crystallization of Northern antagonism to slavery was not moral , but political , and was brought about by ...
... held about the same place in popular esteem that is occupied to - day by radical socialists and communists . The first definite crystallization of Northern antagonism to slavery was not moral , but political , and was brought about by ...
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