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 24
... stand the most casual scrutiny . There is no hint of this youthful loneliness in his Memoirs , but they were written fifty years later , when he had become one of the most distinguished men in the world , and the sorrows of youth had ...
... stand the most casual scrutiny . There is no hint of this youthful loneliness in his Memoirs , but they were written fifty years later , when he had become one of the most distinguished men in the world , and the sorrows of youth had ...
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... standing eternally with a spadeful of earth in his hands . But , after all , such a picture would be a caricature , fertile with truth , as caricatures often are , though a caricature just the same , for he was not a materialist all the ...
... standing eternally with a spadeful of earth in his hands . But , after all , such a picture would be a caricature , fertile with truth , as caricatures often are , though a caricature just the same , for he was not a materialist all the ...
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... stands for ? " " For United States ! " somebody shouts . " That's what U. S. stands for . We're going to have a fellow here named after this great big United States . " " No , it doesn't , " comes another voice from the crowd , " there ...
... stands for ? " " For United States ! " somebody shouts . " That's what U. S. stands for . We're going to have a fellow here named after this great big United States . " " No , it doesn't , " comes another voice from the crowd , " there ...
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... stands as a horrible example of what rhetoric may do to a simple - hearted plowboy : Dear Coz : I was just thinking that you would be right glad to hear from one of your relatives who is so far away as I am . So I have put away my ...
... stands as a horrible example of what rhetoric may do to a simple - hearted plowboy : Dear Coz : I was just thinking that you would be right glad to hear from one of your relatives who is so far away as I am . So I have put away my ...
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... standing at West Point . It was the only subject in which he was really interested , and the only one in which his standing was good . At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in ...
... standing at West Point . It was the only subject in which he was really interested , and the only one in which his standing was good . At the close of the first year he ranked forty - ninth in French in a class of sixty members , but in ...
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