The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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Page 354
... entered Bowdoin College at fourteen , and graduated in due course . He soon after commenced the study of law , in the office of his father , the Hon . Stephen Longfellow , but being appointed pro- fessor of modern languages at Bowdoin ...
... entered Bowdoin College at fourteen , and graduated in due course . He soon after commenced the study of law , in the office of his father , the Hon . Stephen Longfellow , but being appointed pro- fessor of modern languages at Bowdoin ...
Page 413
... entered Yale College , where he remained three years , when he obtained a midshipman's commission and entered the navy . He passed the six following years in that service , and thus became master of the second great field of his future ...
... entered Yale College , where he remained three years , when he obtained a midshipman's commission and entered the navy . He passed the six following years in that service , and thus became master of the second great field of his future ...
Page 508
... entered the university , where his course was a complete triumph . He was one of the projectors and chief contributors of the Edinburgh Review , and in 1803 published “ An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers ...
... entered the university , where his course was a complete triumph . He was one of the projectors and chief contributors of the Edinburgh Review , and in 1803 published “ An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers ...
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