Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... force of character raises the spirit of its times to a higher moral level of manhood . Though encountering great disappointments and trials , and not permitted to realize what would appear to be his just an- ticipations , the career of ...
... force of character raises the spirit of its times to a higher moral level of manhood . Though encountering great disappointments and trials , and not permitted to realize what would appear to be his just an- ticipations , the career of ...
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... force of old ocean . He was a true child of the sea - of a fluent spirit , moved by powerful impulses , loving honor , bold and affectionate . Yet he was more than this . To the simple sailor - spirit of indomitable loyalty to duty was ...
... force of old ocean . He was a true child of the sea - of a fluent spirit , moved by powerful impulses , loving honor , bold and affectionate . Yet he was more than this . To the simple sailor - spirit of indomitable loyalty to duty was ...
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... force of will and independence of character . If not an orator , it is an interesting fact that the father of Admiral Foote was a prominent actor in the first great public strife of opinion between the North and the South , and between ...
... force of will and independence of character . If not an orator , it is an interesting fact that the father of Admiral Foote was a prominent actor in the first great public strife of opinion between the North and the South , and between ...
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... force , when , to his horror , he saw that it had taken effect in the bosom of his father's ruffled shirt , who had just come out of his chamber , having carefully arrayed himself for the occasion of delivering a public address on the ...
... force , when , to his horror , he saw that it had taken effect in the bosom of his father's ruffled shirt , who had just come out of his chamber , having carefully arrayed himself for the occasion of delivering a public address on the ...
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... force from within . He was not a man of thought so much as of action . The strength of his nature was on its moral side . What he purposed he thought ; what he willed he did . His life is in his deeds . Silent in preparation , issuing ...
... force from within . He was not a man of thought so much as of action . The strength of his nature was on its moral side . What he purposed he thought ; what he willed he did . His life is in his deeds . Silent in preparation , issuing ...
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