Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 608
ilt iron-clads of the same brain with an idea which many people sneered at.I have heard it said that no one laughs so much ata fool as a fool, and I think it even more truethat it is the fool who laughs oftenest at thewise man. You all know how nearly all greatastronomers, chemists and inventors… … AN AMERICAN MONITOR. kind; but America did nothing and remained idle,with only a fleet of wooden vessels for protection ofher great sea-coast. All the famous naval battles of history had beenfought by broadside frigates, which in some in-stances carried as many as three tiers of cannon oneach side.…
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