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 68
... duty on stamp paper , similar duties had been laid on glass , tea , & c . & c . , all of which had been repealed with the stamp act , except that on tea . This the ministry had artfully retained : partly to cover the shame of their ...
... duty on stamp paper , similar duties had been laid on glass , tea , & c . & c . , all of which had been repealed with the stamp act , except that on tea . This the ministry had artfully retained : partly to cover the shame of their ...
Stran 113
... duty , they challenged him . He answers by the name of Anderson ; shews his pass ; and bounds away . Here the guardian genius of Columbia burst into tears - she saw the fall of her hero , and her country's liberties crushed for ever ...
... duty , they challenged him . He answers by the name of Anderson ; shews his pass ; and bounds away . Here the guardian genius of Columbia burst into tears - she saw the fall of her hero , and her country's liberties crushed for ever ...
Stran 118
... duty and generosity . Regardless of himself , he is only anxious for Arnold . Having by letter advised that wretched ... duties of son , brother , and man , with constant attention to a happy immortality . Thus giving the friends of ...
... duty and generosity . Regardless of himself , he is only anxious for Arnold . Having by letter advised that wretched ... duties of son , brother , and man , with constant attention to a happy immortality . Thus giving the friends of ...
Stran 136
... duty and old George , they supposed they might as well now go a little farther , and make thorough work of it . A little pay would , to be sure , have been very welcome : and it was a poor military chest that could not afford a single ...
... duty and old George , they supposed they might as well now go a little farther , and make thorough work of it . A little pay would , to be sure , have been very welcome : and it was a poor military chest that could not afford a single ...
Stran 137
... duty as commander in chief , and to prepare to return home . On the last day that he was there , it being known that he meant to set out for Virginia at one o'clock , all his officers , who happened to be in town , assembled at ...
... duty as commander in chief , and to prepare to return home . On the last day that he was there , it being known that he meant to set out for Virginia at one o'clock , all his officers , who happened to be in town , assembled at ...
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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