Nathaniel Hawthorne in His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1980 - 684 pages Shows us America's first great writer and his contemporaries as living, breathing people. |
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Page 413
... Pierce's nervous mount to rear up suddenly . Thrust hard in the groin and pelvis by the pommel of his saddle - an excruciat- ing pain - Pierce had blacked out ; his horse stumbled and went down . A call went out for Major Truman Ransom ...
... Pierce's nervous mount to rear up suddenly . Thrust hard in the groin and pelvis by the pommel of his saddle - an excruciat- ing pain - Pierce had blacked out ; his horse stumbled and went down . A call went out for Major Truman Ransom ...
Page 437
... Pierce administration . He had extracted a firm promise from Pierce that he would have a free hand in dealing with the tangled relationships between the United States and England . Although this should have been the prerogative of ...
... Pierce administration . He had extracted a firm promise from Pierce that he would have a free hand in dealing with the tangled relationships between the United States and England . Although this should have been the prerogative of ...
Page 577
... Pierce , who earlier had had hopes for Hawthorne's recovery , began to realize the seriousness of his friend's condition . He sus- pected , as he later wrote Horatio Bridge , that the seat of the disease was " in the brain or spine or ...
... Pierce , who earlier had had hopes for Hawthorne's recovery , began to realize the seriousness of his friend's condition . He sus- pected , as he later wrote Horatio Bridge , that the seat of the disease was " in the brain or spine or ...
Contents
Mr Hawthorne Calls Again | 3 |
A Remarkably HardHeaded Race | 9 |
PART TWO 6 | 99 |
Copyright | |
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