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... school to fill the interim . There was no high school , but the more promising youth attended a neighboring academy at Hebron , about seven miles away . In the spring of 1849 , John Davis Long was still a pupil in the Buckfield schools ...
... school to fill the interim . There was no high school , but the more promising youth attended a neighboring academy at Hebron , about seven miles away . In the spring of 1849 , John Davis Long was still a pupil in the Buckfield schools ...
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... Hebron . To Hebron he went , a fortnight later — and then came days and nights that tried the soul . Monday , May 7.- Very pleasant weather . I am now at Hebron Academy . I board at the precep- tor's house . I study Latin and Arithmetic ...
... Hebron . To Hebron he went , a fortnight later — and then came days and nights that tried the soul . Monday , May 7.- Very pleasant weather . I am now at Hebron Academy . I board at the precep- tor's house . I study Latin and Arithmetic ...
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... Hebron Academy , and then came a surprise so joyful that it temporarily upset the youngster's grammar . Buckfield , Tuesday , July 10.- Very pleasant . While I was at Hebron waiting for the Master to Hear my lesson , I heard a wagon ...
... Hebron Academy , and then came a surprise so joyful that it temporarily upset the youngster's grammar . Buckfield , Tuesday , July 10.- Very pleasant . While I was at Hebron waiting for the Master to Hear my lesson , I heard a wagon ...
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... Hebron Academy , attending that institution of learning before the Buckfield schools opened for the winter term and after they closed in the spring . From his point of view it was quite a different place from the Hebron of June and July ...
... Hebron Academy , attending that institution of learning before the Buckfield schools opened for the winter term and after they closed in the spring . From his point of view it was quite a different place from the Hebron of June and July ...
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... Hebron Academy assured him he could enter col- lege in the autumn without difficulty . This pleased the fourteen - year old lad , of course , but did not convince him of the advantage of doing so at such a tender age . On the contrary ...
... Hebron Academy assured him he could enter col- lege in the autumn without difficulty . This pleased the fourteen - year old lad , of course , but did not convince him of the advantage of doing so at such a tender age . On the contrary ...
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Page 31 - He that findeth his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 12 - ... offices. The Portland stage comes here 3 times a week, and the stage from Augusta to Friburg passes through here four times a week. 400 dozen of hoes are made here this winter. Uncle and Aunt Ellis came here with a horse and sleigh. I have been splitting wood this forenoon, and Zadoc sawed some. I like to split wood. Tuesday, February 22. — Cloudy and warm. Last night the northern Lights shone out as if a house was on fire. There is a Temperance meeting. Wednesday ) February 23. — Cloudy...
Page 171 - When Long returned to the office he wrote in his journal that Roosevelt "in his precipitate way, has come very near causing more of an explosion than happened to the Maine.
Page 172 - ... sending messages to Congress for immediate legislation, authorizing the enlistment of an unlimited number of seamen; and ordering guns from the Navy Yard at Washington to New York, with a view to arming auxiliary cruisers which are now in peaceful commercial pursuit. ... He has gone at things like a bull in a china shop...
Page 229 - And all we met was fair and good, And all was good that Time could bring, And all the secret of the Spring Moved in the chambers of the blood ; And many an old philosophy On Argive heights divinely sang, And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady.
Page 238 - If the temple of our republic shall ever fall, they will ' still live ' above the ground like those great foundation stones in ancient ruins, which remain in lonely grandeur, unburied in the dust that springs to turf over all else, and making men wonder from what rare quarry...
Page 170 - He is so enthusiastic and loyal that he is in certain respects invaluable; yet I lack confidence in his good judgment and discretion. He goes off very impulsively, and if I have a good night tonight I shall feel that I ought to be back in the Department rather than take a day's vacation.
Page 181 - Do you realize that the President has succeeded in obtaining from Spain a concession upon every ground which he has asked ; that Spain has yielded everything up to the present time except the last item of independence for Cuba ; that she has released every American prisoner; recalled Weyler; recalled De Lome ; changed her reconcentration...
Page 171 - Having the authority for that time of Acting- Secretary, he immediately began to launch peremptory orders: distributing ships, ordering ammunition, which there is no means to move, to places where there is no means to store it; sending...
Page 188 - Roosevelt, has determined upon resigning, in order to go into the army and take part in the war. He has been of great use; a man of unbounded energy and force, and thoroughly honest — which is the main thing. He has lost his head to this unutterable folly of deserting the post where he is of the most service and running off to ride a horse and, probably, brush mosquitoes from his neck on the Florida sands.