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... DANGERS AND DUTIES of the MercanTILE PROFESSION . In one volume , 16mo , price 25 cents . HORACE MANN . A FEW THOUGHTS FOR A YOUNG MAN . In one volume , 16mo , price 25 cents . HENRY T. TUCKERMAN . POEMS . In one vol- ume , 16mo ...
... DANGERS AND DUTIES of the MercanTILE PROFESSION . In one volume , 16mo , price 25 cents . HORACE MANN . A FEW THOUGHTS FOR A YOUNG MAN . In one volume , 16mo , price 25 cents . HENRY T. TUCKERMAN . POEMS . In one vol- ume , 16mo ...
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... dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CESARS . 21.
... dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CESARS . 21.
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... dangers , the bands of gladia- tors , kept in the pay of the more ambitious amongst the Roman nobles , gave a popular tone of ferocity and of personal risk to the course of such contests ; and either to forestall ... danger 44 THE CESARS .
... dangers , the bands of gladia- tors , kept in the pay of the more ambitious amongst the Roman nobles , gave a popular tone of ferocity and of personal risk to the course of such contests ; and either to forestall ... danger 44 THE CESARS .
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... danger which he contemplated , or supposed his mother to contemplate , was the danger of defeat , and for that he reserved his consolations . He bade her fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ...
... danger which he contemplated , or supposed his mother to contemplate , was the danger of defeat , and for that he reserved his consolations . He bade her fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ...
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... danger in extremity , the prodigious energy and rapidity of his decisions and motions in the field ; the skill with which he penetrated the designs of his enemies , and the exemplary speed with which he provided a remedy for disasters ...
... danger in extremity , the prodigious energy and rapidity of his decisions and motions in the field ; the skill with which he penetrated the designs of his enemies , and the exemplary speed with which he provided a remedy for disasters ...
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