Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 406
It is not here the place to rehearse or to discuss thecauses which led to Americas Civil War, a war perhaps the most stupendousrecorded in history. Looking backward, after the bloody foot-prints havebeen well nigh obliterated by the growth of a generation, we can see that thetrend of human… … ROBERT E. LEE AT CHAPULTEP 382 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY South, all combined to make the conflict inevitable. For more than a decadeof years grievances had been growing and rumblings were heard, like the im-prisoned tires beneath the surface of the earth, until the election of…
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