The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen ... Embellished with Six EngravingsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1858 - 244 strani |
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Stran 25
... blood and spirits . At jumping with a long pole , or heaving heavy weights , for his years he hardly had an equal . And as to running , the swift - footed Achilles could scarcely have matched his speed . " Egad ! he ran wonderfully ...
... blood and spirits . At jumping with a long pole , or heaving heavy weights , for his years he hardly had an equal . And as to running , the swift - footed Achilles could scarcely have matched his speed . " Egad ! he ran wonderfully ...
Stran 30
... blood took fire ; and he instantly tendered what aid his little arm could afford . The rank of mid- shipman was procured for him on board a British . ship of war , then lying in our waters ; and his trunk and clothes were actually sent ...
... blood took fire ; and he instantly tendered what aid his little arm could afford . The rank of mid- shipman was procured for him on board a British . ship of war , then lying in our waters ; and his trunk and clothes were actually sent ...
Stran 38
... blood of Frenchmen on every gale , they raised a howl of death which reached these peaceful shores . Orders were immediately issued , by the British government , for the colonies to arm and unite in one confederacy . Virginia took the ...
... blood of Frenchmen on every gale , they raised a howl of death which reached these peaceful shores . Orders were immediately issued , by the British government , for the colonies to arm and unite in one confederacy . Virginia took the ...
Stran 43
... blood together gushed in hissing torrents from their breasts . Such sights of their bleeding comrades , had the enemy but been in view , instead of depress- ing would but have inflamed British blood with fiercer thirst for vengeance ...
... blood together gushed in hissing torrents from their breasts . Such sights of their bleeding comrades , had the enemy but been in view , instead of depress- ing would but have inflamed British blood with fiercer thirst for vengeance ...
Stran 44
... blood thirsty assailants . Happy check ! for by this time , covered with wounds Braddock had fallen - his aids and officers , to a man , killed or wounded - and his troops , in hopeless , help- less despair , flying backwards and ...
... blood thirsty assailants . Happy check ! for by this time , covered with wounds Braddock had fallen - his aids and officers , to a man , killed or wounded - and his troops , in hopeless , help- less despair , flying backwards and ...
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Stran 162 - The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as inn