The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... close . A sailor's wife , " like her own merchants ' ships from afar , " her life was freighted with blessings to her household and friends . Seargent seems to have inherited the virtues of his parents blended into harmony , the self ...
... close . A sailor's wife , " like her own merchants ' ships from afar , " her life was freighted with blessings to her household and friends . Seargent seems to have inherited the virtues of his parents blended into harmony , the self ...
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... close student . The difference between him and others of his age was the marvellous rapidity with which he acquired knowledge and his wonderfully retentive memory . This latter faculty in ordinary minds re- ceives the impression of what ...
... close student . The difference between him and others of his age was the marvellous rapidity with which he acquired knowledge and his wonderfully retentive memory . This latter faculty in ordinary minds re- ceives the impression of what ...
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... close of his school - boy days , his father de- termined to give him a collegiate education . His physical defect unfitted him for the life of a farmer , and there was no other way open for him but a professional career . Had he been a ...
... close of his school - boy days , his father de- termined to give him a collegiate education . His physical defect unfitted him for the life of a farmer , and there was no other way open for him but a professional career . Had he been a ...
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... close of life . Appleton seems to have been the one to whom he was most devotedly attached , but he died in the very spring - time of early manhood . Samuel S. Boyd was the one with whom he was thrown in after - life , and their ...
... close of life . Appleton seems to have been the one to whom he was most devotedly attached , but he died in the very spring - time of early manhood . Samuel S. Boyd was the one with whom he was thrown in after - life , and their ...
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... close proximity , - " Selser Town , " " Pleasant Hill , " and " Union Town . " The church itself rested in the fork where the road branches off from the old trace and trends to Church Hill . Having been built by the joint contributions ...
... close proximity , - " Selser Town , " " Pleasant Hill , " and " Union Town . " The church itself rested in the fork where the road branches off from the old trace and trends to Church Hill . Having been built by the joint contributions ...
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