The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... United States , and this gave the bent to the genius of her people . The father of Seargent was the master of a merchant ship , and drew his living by the sea . " They that go down to the sea in ships , and occupy their business in ...
... United States , and this gave the bent to the genius of her people . The father of Seargent was the master of a merchant ship , and drew his living by the sea . " They that go down to the sea in ships , and occupy their business in ...
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... United States . In the course of a twenty years ' practice he had gathered , as it were , by annual " accretion , " one of the best private law libraries in the State , and it was that library , in part at least , gave the turning ...
... United States . In the course of a twenty years ' practice he had gathered , as it were , by annual " accretion , " one of the best private law libraries in the State , and it was that library , in part at least , gave the turning ...
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... United States . Prentiss passed through this severe mental ordeal , and soon emerged into active life a brilliant genius and an accomplished scholar . " That the ordeal was severe we had positive evidence . While at " Rokeby " he would ...
... United States . Prentiss passed through this severe mental ordeal , and soon emerged into active life a brilliant genius and an accomplished scholar . " That the ordeal was severe we had positive evidence . While at " Rokeby " he would ...
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... United States . The third believed in a strict construction of that instrument , and boldly asserted that the States , as the creators of it , were its superiors , and therefore sovereign . These distinct cardinal principles of the ...
... United States . The third believed in a strict construction of that instrument , and boldly asserted that the States , as the creators of it , were its superiors , and therefore sovereign . These distinct cardinal principles of the ...
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... United States Bank . The seeds of the storm were sown , and although Van Buren succeeded him one term , he reaped the cyclone of 1840. Prentiss , as we shall see farther on , was one of the most conspicuous actors in the drama ; however ...
... United States Bank . The seeds of the storm were sown , and although Van Buren succeeded him one term , he reaped the cyclone of 1840. Prentiss , as we shall see farther on , was one of the most conspicuous actors in the drama ; however ...
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