Grant's Tour Around the World: With Incidents of His Journey Through England, Ireland, Scotland ...Forshee & McMakin, 1880 - 802 pages |
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... coming man . Snubbed by officials , grinned at by porters , sent to a common clerkship to get him out of the way , he began his career . He took whatever was offered him . He began on the lowest round of the ladder , and won his ascent ...
... coming man . Snubbed by officials , grinned at by porters , sent to a common clerkship to get him out of the way , he began his career . He took whatever was offered him . He began on the lowest round of the ladder , and won his ascent ...
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... coming time . A young man without money , without a patron , with no opening , wholly unknown to fame , he has carved his name in imperishable letters on the façade of the Republic . His old commander at West Point , when Grant was a ...
... coming time . A young man without money , without a patron , with no opening , wholly unknown to fame , he has carved his name in imperishable letters on the façade of the Republic . His old commander at West Point , when Grant was a ...
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... coming from Bologne was that it was a fine country , well cultivated and had a happy air . ' " Another silence . The " " The railroads of France are much better than ours . service is made with more precaution , and the roads are well ...
... coming from Bologne was that it was a fine country , well cultivated and had a happy air . ' " Another silence . The " " The railroads of France are much better than ours . service is made with more precaution , and the roads are well ...
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... coming had been expected, and we were welcomed by a handsome young guide, who talked a form of English in a rather high key, as though we were all a little hard of hearing. This guide informed us that he had waited on General Sheridan ...
... coming had been expected, and we were welcomed by a handsome young guide, who talked a form of English in a rather high key, as though we were all a little hard of hearing. This guide informed us that he had waited on General Sheridan ...
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... coming up the mountain side , but on descending we had a beggar or two to await us . I sup- pose they belong to the hostelry and were simply speculating upon us like our friend , the baker , whom we had left hag- gling over his loaves ...
... coming up the mountain side , but on descending we had a beggar or two to await us . I sup- pose they belong to the hostelry and were simply speculating upon us like our friend , the baker , whom we had left hag- gling over his loaves ...
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Page 161 - Nothing then was to be heard but the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the cries of men ; some calling for their children, others for their parents, others for their husbands, and only distinguishing each other by their voices ; one lamenting his own fate, another that of his family ; some wishing to die from the very fear of dying ; some lifting their hands to the gods ; but, the greater part imagining that the last and eternal night was come, which was to destroy the gods and the world...
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Page 77 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Page 47 - Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me ? 37. And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants ; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? 38. And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father ! bless me, even me also, 0 my father ! And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.