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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... command- ant on the Ohio , was the question . For the whole country west of the Blue Mountains , was one im- measurable forest , from time immemorial the gloomy haunt of ravening beasts and of murderous savages . No voices had ever ...
... command- ant on the Ohio , was the question . For the whole country west of the Blue Mountains , was one im- measurable forest , from time immemorial the gloomy haunt of ravening beasts and of murderous savages . No voices had ever ...
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... command the admira- tion of every unprejudiced reader . Among the gentlemen in Williamsburgh , who had sense and virtue enough to appreciate the worth of Washington , one of the first was a Mr. Waller . This gentleman , conversing on ...
... command the admira- tion of every unprejudiced reader . Among the gentlemen in Williamsburgh , who had sense and virtue enough to appreciate the worth of Washington , one of the first was a Mr. Waller . This gentleman , conversing on ...
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... command in which she raised her favourite Washington . Colonel Fry , by right of seniority , commanded but on his death , which happened soon after his appointment , Washington succeeded to the command . With this little handful , he ...
... command in which she raised her favourite Washington . Colonel Fry , by right of seniority , commanded but on his death , which happened soon after his appointment , Washington succeeded to the command . With this little handful , he ...
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... command !! Hence the poorest shoat , if wearing the proud epaulette of a Briton , might command a Wolfe , if so unlucky as to be an American !!! Incensed at such an outrage on common justice , and the rights of his countrymen ...
... command !! Hence the poorest shoat , if wearing the proud epaulette of a Briton , might command a Wolfe , if so unlucky as to be an American !!! Incensed at such an outrage on common justice , and the rights of his countrymen ...
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... command devolved upon Colonel Dunbar , whose conduct proved him to be one of those pusillanimous hirelings , who flee when the wolf cometh . To attempt , by some gallant effort to recover what Braddock had lost , —or to hang upon the ...
... command devolved upon Colonel Dunbar , whose conduct proved him to be one of those pusillanimous hirelings , who flee when the wolf cometh . To attempt , by some gallant effort to recover what Braddock had lost , —or to hang upon the ...
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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