The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... political convention , " Mr. Speaker , it isn't often you meet up with a genus as is a genus , —such a genus as S. S. Prentiss ; and when you do , all you've got to do is to hold him level and let him run . " All that Prentiss had to do ...
... political convention , " Mr. Speaker , it isn't often you meet up with a genus as is a genus , —such a genus as S. S. Prentiss ; and when you do , all you've got to do is to hold him level and let him run . " All that Prentiss had to do ...
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... political antagonist in many a field , -Colonel J. F. H. Clai- borne , who , during the time that Prentiss was teaching at " Dunbarton , " married a daughter of Mrs. Dunbar . Notwithstanding all efforts to draw Prentiss out while at ...
... political antagonist in many a field , -Colonel J. F. H. Clai- borne , who , during the time that Prentiss was teaching at " Dunbarton , " married a daughter of Mrs. Dunbar . Notwithstanding all efforts to draw Prentiss out while at ...
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... Politics is the great maelstrom into whose vortex has been drawn the living talent of our republican country , and many a ... political party to which he belonged seized and dragooned him into service . There is something so irresistibly ...
... Politics is the great maelstrom into whose vortex has been drawn the living talent of our republican country , and many a ... political party to which he belonged seized and dragooned him into service . There is something so irresistibly ...
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... political principles of a youth are generally inherited from his ancestry , and Prentiss was no exception to the rule . He was a Whig by inheritance , and his early convictions were ground into him by the precepts of his strong - minded ...
... political principles of a youth are generally inherited from his ancestry , and Prentiss was no exception to the rule . He was a Whig by inheritance , and his early convictions were ground into him by the precepts of his strong - minded ...
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... politics . Just at this time there loomed up in Mississippi a subject of vast magnitude , —the ordaining of a new constitution . The old constitution of 1817 did not suit the progressive spirit of the people . It was modelled after the ...
... politics . Just at this time there loomed up in Mississippi a subject of vast magnitude , —the ordaining of a new constitution . The old constitution of 1817 did not suit the progressive spirit of the people . It was modelled after the ...
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