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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... received , he was always desired to give a liberal part to his play - mates . To enable him to do this with more alacrity , his father would remind him of the love which he would thereby gain , and the frequent presents which would in ...
... received , he was always desired to give a liberal part to his play - mates . To enable him to do this with more alacrity , his father would remind him of the love which he would thereby gain , and the frequent presents which would in ...
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... received with the praises which they had so well deserved . The Legislature voted the thanks of the nation to Washington and his officers ; with a pistole to each of his men , about 300 . In the course of the following winter , notice ...
... received with the praises which they had so well deserved . The Legislature voted the thanks of the nation to Washington and his officers ; with a pistole to each of his men , about 300 . In the course of the following winter , notice ...
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... receiving this , he redoubled his exertions , and soon extinguished the fire . Our joy on the occasion was unbounded . But he , on the contrary , showing no more of transport now than of terror before , looked rather sad at sight of the ...
... receiving this , he redoubled his exertions , and soon extinguished the fire . Our joy on the occasion was unbounded . But he , on the contrary , showing no more of transport now than of terror before , looked rather sad at sight of the ...
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... received the stamps to sell - and menaced loudly a non - intercourse with Britian , if the act was not im- mediately repealed ! This spirited behaviour filled all England with amazement . Every man there , no matter what his principles ...
... received the stamps to sell - and menaced loudly a non - intercourse with Britian , if the act was not im- mediately repealed ! This spirited behaviour filled all England with amazement . Every man there , no matter what his principles ...
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... received advice from a friend in London that the tea - ships were about to sail . . . . " Well , my lord , " said he , " and so the ships , with the gun - pow- der tea , are , it seems , on their way to America ! " " Well , but colonel ...
... received advice from a friend in London that the tea - ships were about to sail . . . . " Well , my lord , " said he , " and so the ships , with the gun - pow- der tea , are , it seems , on their way to America ! " " Well , but colonel ...
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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