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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... character , which is no evidence of true greatness ; for a public character is often an artificial one . At the head of an army or nation , where gold and glory are at stake , and where a man feels himself the burning focus of unnum ...
... character , which is no evidence of true greatness ; for a public character is often an artificial one . At the head of an army or nation , where gold and glory are at stake , and where a man feels himself the burning focus of unnum ...
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... character amidst which he is generally drawn , you see none that represent him what he really was , " the jupiter Conservator , " the friend and benefactor of men . Where's his bright ploughshare that he loved - or his wheat - crowned ...
... character amidst which he is generally drawn , you see none that represent him what he really was , " the jupiter Conservator , " the friend and benefactor of men . Where's his bright ploughshare that he loved - or his wheat - crowned ...
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... character is every thing ; his public , hardly any thing . For how glorious soever it may have been in Washington to have undertaken the emancipation of his country ; to have stemmed the long tide of adversity ; to have baffled every ...
... character is every thing ; his public , hardly any thing . For how glorious soever it may have been in Washington to have undertaken the emancipation of his country ; to have stemmed the long tide of adversity ; to have baffled every ...
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... character and advice to establish a government that should immor- talize the blessings of liberty - however glorious , I say , all this may have been to himself , or instructive to future generals and presidents , yet does it but little ...
... character and advice to establish a government that should immor- talize the blessings of liberty - however glorious , I say , all this may have been to himself , or instructive to future generals and presidents , yet does it but little ...
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... character of sexton and schoolmaster . On his skill as a grave - digger , tradition is silent ; but for a teacher of youth , his qualifications were certainly of the humbler sort ; making what is generally called an A. B. C. school ...
... character of sexton and schoolmaster . On his skill as a grave - digger , tradition is silent ; but for a teacher of youth , his qualifications were certainly of the humbler sort ; making what is generally called an A. B. C. school ...
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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