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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... passed her life in a convent , prostrate before an altar in the serene twilight of some medieval chapel , where she could have held herself forever apart from the ways and deeds of the world . This is , however , only a conjecture , a ...
... passed her life in a convent , prostrate before an altar in the serene twilight of some medieval chapel , where she could have held herself forever apart from the ways and deeds of the world . This is , however , only a conjecture , a ...
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... passed from mouth to ear around the countryside , and a lawyer was esteemed in proportion to his cleverness . A few sharp legal tricks - a circumventing of known facts by quibbles of sophistry - gave a reputation for shrewdness to its ...
... passed from mouth to ear around the countryside , and a lawyer was esteemed in proportion to his cleverness . A few sharp legal tricks - a circumventing of known facts by quibbles of sophistry - gave a reputation for shrewdness to its ...
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... passed in the solitude of the woods or among horses . He seems not to have cared much for his mother , nor she for him ; but I do not know why . His life was not a normal village boy's life , though most of his biographers have assumed ...
... passed in the solitude of the woods or among horses . He seems not to have cared much for his mother , nor she for him ; but I do not know why . His life was not a normal village boy's life , though most of his biographers have assumed ...
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... passing of years , his father was growing more and more well - to - do financially . He wanted Ulysses , before he entered the tannery as his successor , to have a better education than the Georgetown school could give , and in the ...
... passing of years , his father was growing more and more well - to - do financially . He wanted Ulysses , before he entered the tannery as his successor , to have a better education than the Georgetown school could give , and in the ...
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... breeding ground for snobbery , that it was an inefficient school and a waste of money . Grant said that he looked at the newspapers every day , hoping to read that the bill had passed , and that the Academy was to go out of existence . He.
... breeding ground for snobbery , that it was an inefficient school and a waste of money . Grant said that he looked at the newspapers every day , hoping to read that the bill had passed , and that the Academy was to go out of existence . He.
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