The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 38Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock H.H. Metcalf, 1906 - New Hampshire |
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Page 17 - So when a good man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
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Page 51 - ... minutes after the first shot was fired. The ground which had been occupied by the British grenadiers, presented a scene of complicated horror and exultation. In the square space of twelve or fifteen yards, lay eighteen grenadiers in the agonies of death, and three officers propped...
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