Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 9Archibald Hamilton Bryce 1862 |
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... leaving Palos . William Hickling Prescott , the celebrated American writer , was born at Salem , Massachusetts , in 1796. He died in 1859. His " History of Ferdinand and Isabella , " " Conquest of Mexico , " and " Conquest of Peru ...
... leaving Palos . William Hickling Prescott , the celebrated American writer , was born at Salem , Massachusetts , in 1796. He died in 1859. His " History of Ferdinand and Isabella , " " Conquest of Mexico , " and " Conquest of Peru ...
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... leaving behind them six or seven distinct lines of dead , lying as close as possible to each other , marking the passage of the fatal messengers . This act relieved our infantry of a deadly incubus , and they con- tinued their ...
... leaving behind them six or seven distinct lines of dead , lying as close as possible to each other , marking the passage of the fatal messengers . This act relieved our infantry of a deadly incubus , and they con- tinued their ...
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... leaving three generals , drums , three guns , 700 prisoners , and 4000 wounded behind them . The battle of the Alma was won . It is won with a loss of nearly 3000 killed and wounded on our side . The Russians ' retreat was covered by ...
... leaving three generals , drums , three guns , 700 prisoners , and 4000 wounded behind them . The battle of the Alma was won . It is won with a loss of nearly 3000 killed and wounded on our side . The Russians ' retreat was covered by ...
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... leaving the only home she had ever known , and cutting loose from the protection of a friend she ever loved and revered . Then there was the parting from every familiar object , -- the place where she had grown up , the trees under ...
... leaving the only home she had ever known , and cutting loose from the protection of a friend she ever loved and revered . Then there was the parting from every familiar object , -- the place where she had grown up , the trees under ...
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... leaves may see themselves upon the ground . Not so the oak ; trembling does not become him ; and he watches him- self in his stout old burly steadfastness , without the motion of a twig . The moss - grown gate , ill - poised upon its ...
... leaves may see themselves upon the ground . Not so the oak ; trembling does not become him ; and he watches him- self in his stout old burly steadfastness , without the motion of a twig . The moss - grown gate , ill - poised upon its ...
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