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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... lived was the son of this second marriage . Little George had scarcely attained his fifth year , when his father left Pope's creek , and came up to a plantation which he had in Stafford , opposite to Fredericksburg . The house in which ...
... lived was the son of this second marriage . Little George had scarcely attained his fifth year , when his father left Pope's creek , and came up to a plantation which he had in Stafford , opposite to Fredericksburg . The house in which ...
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... lived to see his young pupil in all his glory , and rejoiced exceedingly . In his cups - for though a sexton , he would sometimes drink , particularly on the General's birth days he used to boast that " ' twas he , who , between his ...
... lived to see his young pupil in all his glory , and rejoiced exceedingly . In his cups - for though a sexton , he would sometimes drink , particularly on the General's birth days he used to boast that " ' twas he , who , between his ...
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... . Soon after the death of his father , his mother sent him down to Westmoreland , the place of his nativity , where he lived with his half - brother Augustine , and went to school to a Mr. Williams , an excellent 22 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
... . Soon after the death of his father , his mother sent him down to Westmoreland , the place of his nativity , where he lived with his half - brother Augustine , and went to school to a Mr. Williams , an excellent 22 LIFE OF WASHINGTON .
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... lived among them , in the spirit of a brother . He was never guilty of so brutish a practice as that of fighting himself ; nor would he , when able to prevent it , allow them to fight one another . If he could not disarm their savage ...
... lived among them , in the spirit of a brother . He was never guilty of so brutish a practice as that of fighting himself ; nor would he , when able to prevent it , allow them to fight one another . If he could not disarm their savage ...
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... lived to hear of his fame ; for as the French and Indians were at that time a great public terror , the people could not help being very loud in their praise of a youth , who , with so slender a force had dared to meet them in their own ...
... lived to hear of his fame ; for as the French and Indians were at that time a great public terror , the people could not help being very loud in their praise of a youth , who , with so slender a force had dared to meet them in their own ...
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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