The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... young man who was about to become his teacher . The little boy shied into the room and listened to him as he resumed the conversation . It left a pleasing impression upon his youthful mind , though its purport faded from his memory ...
... young man who was about to become his teacher . The little boy shied into the room and listened to him as he resumed the conversation . It left a pleasing impression upon his youthful mind , though its purport faded from his memory ...
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... young gentry to form a debat- ing society , and they selected Union Chapel as the most conve- nient place of meeting . Joseph Dunbar , locally speaking clarum et venerabile nomen , was its first president , and the society was composed ...
... young gentry to form a debat- ing society , and they selected Union Chapel as the most conve- nient place of meeting . Joseph Dunbar , locally speaking clarum et venerabile nomen , was its first president , and the society was composed ...
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... young rival of Prentiss was brief . He had inherited that disease in which death , as though in mockery , as- sumes the hue of health , but which slowly and surely saps the vital energies , in spite of change of clime or any earthly ...
... young rival of Prentiss was brief . He had inherited that disease in which death , as though in mockery , as- sumes the hue of health , but which slowly and surely saps the vital energies , in spite of change of clime or any earthly ...
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... young reader ( the old ones I know cannot ) thinks this a little . job just let him try it , and if he can beat the score made by Prentiss I should be pleased to hear from him . CHAPTER III . PRENTISS left the " Dunbarton " school ...
... young reader ( the old ones I know cannot ) thinks this a little . job just let him try it , and if he can beat the score made by Prentiss I should be pleased to hear from him . CHAPTER III . PRENTISS left the " Dunbarton " school ...
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... young emigrant started on his exodus , about the 1st of March , 1839 , to the lowlands of Louisiana via the Mississippi River . He placed in it all his worldly goods , —his slaves , horned cattle , horses , mules , sheep , hogs , dogs ...
... young emigrant started on his exodus , about the 1st of March , 1839 , to the lowlands of Louisiana via the Mississippi River . He placed in it all his worldly goods , —his slaves , horned cattle , horses , mules , sheep , hogs , dogs ...
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