A New American Biographical Dictionary Or Rememberancer of the Departed Heroe
A New American Biographical Dictionary Or Rememberancer of the Departed Heroe
Thomas J Thomas Jones Rogers
The book A New American Biographical Dictionary Or Rememberancer of the Departed Heroe was written by author Thomas J Thomas Jones Rogers Here you can read free online of A New American Biographical Dictionary Or Rememberancer of the Departed Heroe book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A New American Biographical Dictionary Or Rememberancer of the Departed Heroe a good or bad book?
What reading level is A New American Biographical Dictionary Or Rememberancer of the Departed Heroe book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He accompanied the marquis de la Fayette to this country, and having proffered his services to Congress, he was appointed to tiie oflice of major general. He repaired to the main army, in which he served at the head of tlie Maryland division, very much respected. Possessing a stout frame, with excellent health, no oflicer was more able to encounter the toils of war. Moderate in mental powers, as in literary acquirements, he excelled chief- ly in practical knowledge of men and things, gained dur...ing a life by close and accurate investigation of the cause and ef- fect of passing events. No man was better qualified for the undertaking. He was sober, drinking water only : abstemious to excess ; living on bread, sometimes with beef soup, at other times with cold beef j iudustrioHs, it being his constant habit to rise at five in the 280 KALB. morning, liglit his candle, devote himself to writing, which was never intermitted during the day but when interrupted by liis short meals, or by attention to his official duty ; and pro- foundly secret.
User Reviews: