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 16
... success . Jesse Grant might have become the Leather King of Ohio or something else equally admirable if it had not been for his disputatious cocksureness on all subjects . In supporting his ideas he was pugnacious and opinionated to the ...
... success . Jesse Grant might have become the Leather King of Ohio or something else equally admirable if it had not been for his disputatious cocksureness on all subjects . In supporting his ideas he was pugnacious and opinionated to the ...
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... success . Yet , strong as was this passion for nature , it was destined soon to pass away . By the time young Ulysses had grown into a lad , the men and women of the Ohio settlements had become weary of their harsh toil , and Daniel ...
... success . Yet , strong as was this passion for nature , it was destined soon to pass away . By the time young Ulysses had grown into a lad , the men and women of the Ohio settlements had become weary of their harsh toil , and Daniel ...
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... successful swearer ; profanity stood even higher than obscenity in the juvenile scale of excellence . Ulysses never swore and was not in the least obscene . To the end of his life he did not like to listen to off - color stories ...
... successful swearer ; profanity stood even higher than obscenity in the juvenile scale of excellence . Ulysses never swore and was not in the least obscene . To the end of his life he did not like to listen to off - color stories ...
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... they become enormously dynamic and successful . But when they are wrong their ideas strike like a hammer beating water , and then their failures are egregious beyond words . T CHAPTER III THE UNWILLING SOLDIER § 1 HE seventeen.
... they become enormously dynamic and successful . But when they are wrong their ideas strike like a hammer beating water , and then their failures are egregious beyond words . T CHAPTER III THE UNWILLING SOLDIER § 1 HE seventeen.
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... successful teacher must possess , his work would have become before long an ineffective drudgery . Undistin- guished and unpromoted , he would have gone laboring on for years and then the world would have heard no more of him . His stay ...
... successful teacher must possess , his work would have become before long an ineffective drudgery . Undistin- guished and unpromoted , he would have gone laboring on for years and then the world would have heard no more of him . His stay ...
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