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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... happy paths of virtue . But well knowing that his beloved charge , soon to be a man , would be left exposed to numberless temptations , both from himself and from ethers , his heart throbbed with the tenderest anxiety to make him ...
... happy paths of virtue . But well knowing that his beloved charge , soon to be a man , would be left exposed to numberless temptations , both from himself and from ethers , his heart throbbed with the tenderest anxiety to make him ...
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... happy he should be once more to see his little son , and give him his blessing before he died . But alas ! he never enjoyed that last mournful pleasure ; for George did not reach home until a few hours before his father's death : and ...
... happy he should be once more to see his little son , and give him his blessing before he died . But alas ! he never enjoyed that last mournful pleasure ; for George did not reach home until a few hours before his father's death : and ...
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... happy believers in a particular Providence can solve : certain it is , his earthly parents had no hand in it . For of his father , tradition says nothing , save that he was a most amia- ble old gentlemen ; one who made good crops , and ...
... happy believers in a particular Providence can solve : certain it is , his earthly parents had no hand in it . For of his father , tradition says nothing , save that he was a most amia- ble old gentlemen ; one who made good crops , and ...
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... 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 forwards from the fire of the ...
... 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 forwards from the fire of the ...
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... happy issue . " In a letter of a later date he says , " well , all's lost ! our enterprise is ruined ! And we shall be stopped this winter at the Laurel Hills ! " By the middle of November , after incredible exer . tions , the army ...
... happy issue . " In a letter of a later date he says , " well , all's lost ! our enterprise is ruined ! And we shall be stopped this winter at the Laurel Hills ! " By the middle of November , after incredible exer . tions , the army ...
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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