The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... letter - press copy ; nor was this his only extraordinary mental endowment , for he had , so to speak , a wonderful power of mental ❝assimila- tion " ; he seemed at once to digest what he read , and it became a part and parcel of his ...
... letter - press copy ; nor was this his only extraordinary mental endowment , for he had , so to speak , a wonderful power of mental ❝assimila- tion " ; he seemed at once to digest what he read , and it became a part and parcel of his ...
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... letters of introduction . I call them blessed , for they are the life - buoys to the young stranger in foreign waters to keep him afloat until he can himself swim without them . Judge Pierce had given him a letter to Mr. Thomas ...
... letters of introduction . I call them blessed , for they are the life - buoys to the young stranger in foreign waters to keep him afloat until he can himself swim without them . Judge Pierce had given him a letter to Mr. Thomas ...
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... letter of introduction to his friend , Judge Wright , of Cincinnati . He left New York on the 10th of August , that ... letters to the " old folks at home " : " Just before arriving at a landing - place , " he writes , " the small boat ...
... letter of introduction to his friend , Judge Wright , of Cincinnati . He left New York on the 10th of August , that ... letters to the " old folks at home " : " Just before arriving at a landing - place , " he writes , " the small boat ...
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... letter of introduction to Judge Nathaniel Wright , and thus paved the way to a life - long friendship . He cast about for a few days as to the expediency of taking a school to support himself , but the idea was abandoned , and on the ...
... letter of introduction to Judge Nathaniel Wright , and thus paved the way to a life - long friendship . He cast about for a few days as to the expediency of taking a school to support himself , but the idea was abandoned , and on the ...
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... letter from Louisville explaining the motives . The trip from Louisville down the river was very tedious on account of the low water in the Ohio River . Prentiss fully realized the sarcasm of John Randolph , - " It was no river at all ...
... letter from Louisville explaining the motives . The trip from Louisville down the river was very tedious on account of the low water in the Ohio River . Prentiss fully realized the sarcasm of John Randolph , - " It was no river at all ...
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