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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... mind it , but spent his last moments in fondly talking of his brother George , who , he said , " he had always believed , would one day or other be a great man 199 On openi g his will , it was found that George had lost nothing by his ...
... mind it , but spent his last moments in fondly talking of his brother George , who , he said , " he had always believed , would one day or other be a great man 199 On openi g his will , it was found that George had lost nothing by his ...
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... mind , because promising him an abundance of that manly exercise in which he delighted . In front of the house lay a fine ex- tended green , with a square of several hundred yards . Here it was every evening , when his daily toils of ...
... mind , because promising him an abundance of that manly exercise in which he delighted . In front of the house lay a fine ex- tended green , with a square of several hundred yards . Here it was every evening , when his daily toils of ...
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... mind . The verdure and music of the love - breathing spring ; the bright fields and harvests of joy - inspiring summer ; the faded leaves and mournful silence of autumn , with winter's solemn grandeur ; were the scenes in which the ...
... mind . The verdure and music of the love - breathing spring ; the bright fields and harvests of joy - inspiring summer ; the faded leaves and mournful silence of autumn , with winter's solemn grandeur ; were the scenes in which the ...
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... mind ; and shine with such lustre in the pages of his journal , as to 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 ...
... mind ; and shine with such lustre in the pages of his journal , as to 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 ...
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... minds . Washington was therefore kept in the back ground ; and General Braddock being dead , the command devolved upon Colonel Dunbar , whose conduct proved him to be one of those pusillanimous hirelings , who flee when the wolf cometh ...
... minds . Washington was therefore kept in the back ground ; and General Braddock being dead , the command devolved upon Colonel Dunbar , whose conduct proved him to be one of those pusillanimous hirelings , who flee when the wolf cometh ...
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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