Library of Southern Literature: Biographical dictionary of authors

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Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent
Martin & Hoyt Company, 1910
 

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Trang 126 - DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW ALBION. And a Direction for Adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : And for Gentlemen, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers to live plentifully. And a former Description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest Plantation of NEW ALBION IN NORTH VIRGINIA, proved by thirteen witnesses.
Trang 461 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States...
Trang 252 - ... commerce; and to the centralization of power in the Federal government, protesting that it would reduce the states to the condition of mere corporations and give a dangerous superiority to the north. The earnestness of his antagonism may be inferred from the closing sentence of one of his speeches: "I wish for no other epitaph than this: 'Here lies one who opposed the Federal constitution, holding it to be fatal to the liberties of his country.
Trang 287 - ... consequence of which he went to Europe, and while there studied philology and philosophy in Berlin. When he returned, at the end of two years, he became librarian of Charleston college. He has published articles in the " Southern Review," also addresses and poems, and is the author of a treatise entitled " Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Grounds of all Religious Belief based on Reason " (Charleston, 1849). MILES, Nelson Appleton, soldier, b. in Westminster, Mass., 8 Aug., 1839. He received...
Trang 16 - Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, and East and West Florida,' which was published in Philadelphia in 1791.
Trang 362 - ... the class the name of the case, the book and page where it was to be found, which our young plumed knight always did." At that time, the full law course at Columbia covered two years. Marshall did them both in one. After leaving the Law School, he returned to Syracuse where he entered a law office, and at the age of twentyone, he was admitted to the Bar. This formal statement of his education would be incomplete without adding to it the branches of knowledge which he apparently taught himself,...
Trang 325 - At the outbreak of the civil war he joined the Confederate army as chaplain and served as such throughout the contest.
Trang 64 - From 1876 to 1894 he was assistant curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, Mass. Besides sundry scientific papers, he wrote: 'Missouri, a Bone of Contention' (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company) and 'The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley

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