The Boys' Life of Theodore RooseveltHarper & brothers, 1922 - 398 pages |
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... Once , in fact , when he felt that he had been wronged by maternal discipline , he took vengeance on his mother by praying at her knee with loud fervor for the success of the Union arms . His mother , it appears , had a sense of humor ...
... Once , in fact , when he felt that he had been wronged by maternal discipline , he took vengeance on his mother by praying at her knee with loud fervor for the success of the Union arms . His mother , it appears , had a sense of humor ...
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... once as a preliminary to a pleasant morning ride . With him he rode the high- ways and byways . " I had a ride of six miles before breakfast , " he writes one day in August . " I will always have a ride of six miles before breakfast now ...
... once as a preliminary to a pleasant morning ride . With him he rode the high- ways and byways . " I had a ride of six miles before breakfast , " he writes one day in August . " I will always have a ride of six miles before breakfast now ...
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... Once there was a dramatic encounter , which Theodore records thus : " We went to our cousins school at Waterloo . We had a nice time but met Jeff Davises son and some sharp words ensued . " The thing that the Roosevelt children ...
... Once there was a dramatic encounter , which Theodore records thus : " We went to our cousins school at Waterloo . We had a nice time but met Jeff Davises son and some sharp words ensued . " The thing that the Roosevelt children ...
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... a matter of course ; and his younger brother Elliott , who suffered from none of the ail- ments which pursued Theodore , had in consequence been his protector against bullies more than once . It 40 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
... a matter of course ; and his younger brother Elliott , who suffered from none of the ail- ments which pursued Theodore , had in consequence been his protector against bullies more than once . It 40 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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Hermann Hagedorn. been his protector against bullies more than once . It happened , in the summer of '72 , however , that certain bullies descended on Theodore at a time when Elliott was a little more than five hundred miles away ...
Hermann Hagedorn. been his protector against bullies more than once . It happened , in the summer of '72 , however , that certain bullies descended on Theodore at a time when Elliott was a little more than five hundred miles away ...
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