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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 10 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Major General John B. Floyd. (search)
be found, though not the sole, yet the dominating quality, whether in civilized or barbarian war. Energy was the prominent characteristic of our immortal Jackson, and furnishes the solution of his whole mysterious and magnificent career. In military genius and science he may not have been superior to other Generals, but in promptness, perseverance, rapidity, determination to secure success, he has had few equals either in America or Europe. His was the "Action, action, action," of Demosthenes, which is not less the source of success in war than in oratory. These observations are by no means designed to underrate the value of scientific military educations. Jackson was a West Pointer, and one of the most industrious students of that celebrated institution. Now and then a great natural military man may be found, born a soldier, as some men are born mechanics, but such cases are exceptional. We should in general as soon think of calling upon a carpenter to make us a pair