The Library of American Biography, 第 12 卷C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1847 |
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... cause , and yet respected by the loyalists ; he seems to have been peculiarly fitted for a com- manding position at the crisis . He never vio- lated his word , whether pledged to perform great or small affairs . In person , he was stout ...
... cause , and yet respected by the loyalists ; he seems to have been peculiarly fitted for a com- manding position at the crisis . He never vio- lated his word , whether pledged to perform great or small affairs . In person , he was stout ...
第 16 頁
... caused a considerable flow of blood . The discomfited one , fresh from the combat , presented himself to the preceptor , the celebrated Samuel Moody , and told his story . Mr. Moody sometimes lost his self - control , and could not , on ...
... caused a considerable flow of blood . The discomfited one , fresh from the combat , presented himself to the preceptor , the celebrated Samuel Moody , and told his story . Mr. Moody sometimes lost his self - control , and could not , on ...
第 40 頁
... cause Preble , unwilling to submit to the ex- travagant price demanded for the use of vessels , prepared a wharf for the purpose , which , he said , though the occasion of delay and much labor , had not been one third of the expense of ...
... cause Preble , unwilling to submit to the ex- travagant price demanded for the use of vessels , prepared a wharf for the purpose , which , he said , though the occasion of delay and much labor , had not been one third of the expense of ...
第 49 頁
... caused Preble much anxiety . It " distresses me beyond descrip- tion , " said he , on the 10th of December , when enclosing to the navy department Bainbridge's official account . It may well have done so . VOL . XII . 4 To be deprived ...
... caused Preble much anxiety . It " distresses me beyond descrip- tion , " said he , on the 10th of December , when enclosing to the navy department Bainbridge's official account . It may well have done so . VOL . XII . 4 To be deprived ...
第 66 頁
... cause of his inability to coöperate , remarked , that he " took the best position without the harbor to cover the retreat of the Intrepid . " " His conduct through the expedition had been judicious , and highly meritorious . " The zeal ...
... cause of his inability to coöperate , remarked , that he " took the best position without the harbor to cover the retreat of the Intrepid . " " His conduct through the expedition had been judicious , and highly meritorious . " The zeal ...
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