Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and other biographical addresses

Emory Speer

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OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY AT LOS ANGELES THE GIFT OF MAY TREAT MORRISON IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER F MORRISON f GRANTLINCOLN, LEE, FRONTISPIECE GrantLincoln, Lee, AND Other AddressesBiographical BY EMORY SPEERJUDGE NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1909 Copyright. 1909, by The Neale Publishing Company TO MY MOTHER first thestill beautiful and sawWhose soft,eyes, friends of were inwhen Olgethorpe vigorouslight Erskine but three Hamilton stilllife ;; goneyears comrades of Yorktown anddeplored by many Marshall with to live; ;Valley Forge eight years Lincoln and Lee were and Brown andlads; little this book is inscribed.Grant, boys lovingly 438111 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 1 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 19 ROBERT EDWARD LEE 45 ULYSSES S. GRANT 85 EDWARD OGLETHORPEJAMES 109 ALEXANDER HAMILTON 151 MARSHALLJOHN 179 ERSKINE 209 EMERSON BROWNJOSEPH 227 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE LINCOLNABRAHAM 19 LEEROBERT EDWARD 45 S. GRANTULYSSES 45 EDWARD OGLETHORPEJAMES 109 ALEXANDER HAMILTON 151 MARSHALLJOHN 179 ERSKINE 209 EMERSON BROWNJOSEPH 227 INTRODUCTION. BY CHARLES RAY D.D.PALMER, Sir wrote someJames Stephen sixty years ago, "A chain of constitutes thesplendid biographies of centuries."history past Well-nigh inevitably, as we turn our our search is for theeyes backward, men inwhom their time had its fullest embodiment. Our is that a is best studied in itsfeeling period whether we think made it or were theleaders, they of it. human weproduct Through sympathies our best of events.

Sujets

• Lincoln
• Lée
• Grant
• Oglethorpe
• Hamilton
• Marshall
• Erskine
• Brown
• United States

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY
AT LOS ANGELES
THE GIFT OF
MAY TREAT MORRISON
IN MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER F MORRISONfGRANTLINCOLN, LEE,FRONTISPIECE