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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 29 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
, so far as he was able to introduce them at Harvard. Meanwhile there had arrived in this country several other bearers of influence from Latin countries. Peter Stephen DuPonceau (1760-1844) at the house of Beaumarchais in Paris met Baron Steuben, and came to America with him as secretary and aide de camp. Arriving in 1777, he received a captaincy in the American army and served until 1780, when bad health obliged him to give up active campaigning. For a while he was secretary to Robert Livingston, then in charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and after studying law he was in June, 1785, admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, where he had become a citizen. He rose to such eminence in his profession that he afterwards declined Jefferson's offer to appoint him Chief Justice of Louisiana and was able to retire early in life and devote himself to linguistics. From 1791 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society, to whose interests he gave much time and energy, and
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
life (Whipple), 126 Little, James A., 150 Little Book of profitable tales, a, 28 Little Book of Western verse, a, 28 Little Breeches, 53 Little Brown Jug, 516 Little citizens, 420 Little folk lyrics, 52 Little Harry Hughes, 507 Little Johnny Jones, 289 Little Lord Fauntleroy, 16, 290 Little Old log cabin in the Lane, the, 514 Little Old Sod Shanty on My claim, the, 514 Little Peach of Emerald hue, the, 28 Litwisch Staedtel, 605 Lives of the Caesars, 6 Livingston, Robert, 448 Livingstone, Henry, 163, 334 Lloyd, Henry D., 358 Locke, Edward, 282 Locke, John, 227, 228, 263 Locke Amsden, or the schoolmaster, 416 Lockhart, 96 Lockwood, Lieut., 169 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 302, 354, 419 Loeb, James, 491 n. Logan, George, 431 Logan, (Indian Chief), 613 Logan, Olive, 275, 276 Logan, William, 445 Logic, 234 Log of a cowboy, the, 161 Loher, 578 Lomax, John A., 513 London, Jack, 94 Lone Fish Ball, The, 463 London Films,