The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen ... Embellished with Six EngravingsJ. Allen, 1840 - 244 strani |
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Stran 91
... land , he did not lose sight of their fleet , which was now forcing its way up the Delaware , to keep open to the army a channel of supplies . They arrived , without molestation , within 8 miles of Philadelphia , at a marsh called Mud ...
... land , he did not lose sight of their fleet , which was now forcing its way up the Delaware , to keep open to the army a channel of supplies . They arrived , without molestation , within 8 miles of Philadelphia , at a marsh called Mud ...
Stran 206
... land be free from all those sloth- begotten demons which now haunt and torment us . For whence do all our miseries proceed , but from lack of industry ! In a land like this , which heaven has blessed above all lands - a land abounding ...
... land be free from all those sloth- begotten demons which now haunt and torment us . For whence do all our miseries proceed , but from lack of industry ! In a land like this , which heaven has blessed above all lands - a land abounding ...
Stran 207
... land in Stafford county , and a few negroes . This appearing utterly insufficient for those purposes of usefulness ... lands , and of making money , not meanly to hoard , but gene- rously to lend to any worthy object that asked it . This ...
... land in Stafford county , and a few negroes . This appearing utterly insufficient for those purposes of usefulness ... lands , and of making money , not meanly to hoard , but gene- rously to lend to any worthy object that asked it . This ...
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