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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... never wept and rarely smiled . We know almost as little of her as we do of Mary Ball , the mother of George Washington - and this is strange , for there are scores of people alive to - day who remember her as an old woman . Yes , they ...
... never wept and rarely smiled . We know almost as little of her as we do of Mary Ball , the mother of George Washington - and this is strange , for there are scores of people alive to - day who remember her as an old woman . Yes , they ...
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... never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote pensively near the close of his life , " either while attending the school , or in later years when reflecting upon my ex- perience . " One day , after he had become famous ...
... never had any hard feelings against my teacher , " he wrote pensively near the close of his life , " either while attending the school , or in later years when reflecting upon my ex- perience . " One day , after he had become famous ...
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... never fully come to light , he was unpopular among young people of his own age . I suspect his unpopularity was due largely to the fact that he was such poor company . He was bashful , and inept at the fluent jesting that passes for wit ...
... never fully come to light , he was unpopular among young people of his own age . I suspect his unpopularity was due largely to the fact that he was such poor company . He was bashful , and inept at the fluent jesting that passes for wit ...
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... never came to the surface , except indirectly , and he was probably not aware of it himself . I know this observation will be received with incredulity , for the conventional portrait of Grant is that of a bearded , puffy , middle ...
... never came to the surface , except indirectly , and he was probably not aware of it himself . I know this observation will be received with incredulity , for the conventional portrait of Grant is that of a bearded , puffy , middle ...
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... never been seen naked by any one since he had been a small boy . Some of his biographers , feeling that there is no ... never immersed in love in the manner of the great lovers ; that he never gave himself wholly , at any time , to ...
... never been seen naked by any one since he had been a small boy . Some of his biographers , feeling that there is no ... never immersed in love in the manner of the great lovers ; that he never gave himself wholly , at any time , to ...
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Page 166 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 205 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Page 222 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 127 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 188 - It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.
Page 196 - We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil; And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far, Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
Page 195 - Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again, Shouting the battlecry of freedom, We will rally from the hillside, we'll gather from the plain, Shouting the battlecry of freedom.
Page 266 - They will see that all this class of people are furnished with passes and required to leave; and any one returning after such notification will be arrested and held in confinement until an opportunity occurs of sending them out as prisoners, unless furnished with permits from these head-quarters.
Page 63 - I concluded to relinquish my school and turn my attention to perfecting the Machine. I made one before I came away which required the labor of one man to turn it and with which one man will clean ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode.
Page 163 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...