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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... parties or armies . One of these , for distinction sake , was called French , the other American . A big boy at the school , named William Bustle , commanded the former ; George commanded the latter . And every day , at play - time ...
... parties or armies . One of these , for distinction sake , was called French , the other American . A big boy at the school , named William Bustle , commanded the former ; George commanded the latter . And every day , at play - time ...
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... parties throw aside the slow - murdering rifles , and grasp their swift - fated tomahawks . Dreadfully above their heads gleams the brandished steel , as with full exerted limbs , and faces all inflamed with mortal hate , they level at ...
... parties throw aside the slow - murdering rifles , and grasp their swift - fated tomahawks . Dreadfully above their heads gleams the brandished steel , as with full exerted limbs , and faces all inflamed with mortal hate , they level at ...
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... parties , which distracted with midnight murders and deluged the defenceless frontiers with blood , were brave and generous ideas , of which he seemed incapable . But , trembling under the general panic , he instantly ordered the tents ...
... parties , which distracted with midnight murders and deluged the defenceless frontiers with blood , were brave and generous ideas , of which he seemed incapable . But , trembling under the general panic , he instantly ordered the tents ...
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... parties , they might be destroyed one after another , by a su- perior force . If he threw them into forts , they were sure to be starved ; or derided by the enemy , who could easily pass them in the night and surprise , destroy , and ...
... parties , they might be destroyed one after another , by a su- perior force . If he threw them into forts , they were sure to be starved ; or derided by the enemy , who could easily pass them in the night and surprise , destroy , and ...
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... parties . In this bold and dangerous employment , which lasted almost three years , he was often presented with sights of human destruction , sufficient to excite sympathy in hearts of flintiest stone . On.cautiously entering the ...
... parties . In this bold and dangerous employment , which lasted almost three years , he was often presented with sights of human destruction , sufficient to excite sympathy in hearts of flintiest stone . On.cautiously entering the ...
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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