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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. During the successive reprints of the first edition of this work, published in 1871, I was able to introduce several important corrections; and now that more time has elapsed, I have endeavoured to profit by the fiery ordeal through which the book has passed,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYES WHO SHARED THE VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how...

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pubOne.info present you this new edition. The proud Lord Chesterfield would have turned in his grave had he known that he was to go down to posterity as a teacher and preacher of the gospel of not grace, but- "e;the graces, the graces, the graces. "e; Natural gifts, social status, open opportunities, and his ambition, all conspired to...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The "e;Twentieth"e; school was built of logs hewn on two sides. The cracks were chinked and filled with plaster, which had a curious habit of falling out during the summer months, no one knew how; but somehow the holes always appeared on the boys' side, and being there, were found to be most...