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 17
... gave him his hand , which he seized with great eagerness , and tugging him along through the garden , led him point blank to the bed whereon was inscrib- ed , in large letters , and in all the freshness of newly sprung plants , the full ...
... gave him his hand , which he seized with great eagerness , and tugging him along through the garden , led him point blank to the bed whereon was inscrib- ed , in large letters , and in all the freshness of newly sprung plants , the full ...
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... gave me all these things . " " What was it then , do you think , my son ? " " Indeed , Pa , I don't know unless it was God Almighty ! " " Yes , George , he it was , my son , and nobody else . " " Well , but Pa , ( continued George ) ...
... gave me all these things . " " What was it then , do you think , my son ? " " Indeed , Pa , I don't know unless it was God Almighty ! " " Yes , George , he it was , my son , and nobody else . " " Well , but Pa , ( continued George ) ...
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... gave thee ( ' twas all he had ) himself - his fondest company - his sweetest looks and prattle . He now gives thee his little feeble embraces . With artless sighs and tears , faithful to thee still , his feet will follow thee to thy ...
... gave thee ( ' twas all he had ) himself - his fondest company - his sweetest looks and prattle . He now gives thee his little feeble embraces . With artless sighs and tears , faithful to thee still , his feet will follow thee to thy ...
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... gave com- missions to all of them who chose to join his army ; which several of them did . William Crawford , the eldest of them , and as brave a man as ever shoulder- ed a musket , was advanced as high as the rank of colonel , when he ...
... gave com- missions to all of them who chose to join his army ; which several of them did . William Crawford , the eldest of them , and as brave a man as ever shoulder- ed a musket , was advanced as high as the rank of colonel , when he ...
Stran 31
... gave him this short reply : " Brother , stay at home , and comfort your wife . ” But though not destined to figure on the quarter- deck of a man of war , yet he ceased not to cultivate that talent which had been given for higher uses ...
... gave him this short reply : " Brother , stay at home , and comfort your wife . ” But though not destined to figure on the quarter- deck of a man of war , yet he ceased not to cultivate that talent which had been given for higher uses ...
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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