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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... heads gleams the brandished steel , as with full exerted limbs , and faces all inflamed with mortal hate , they level at each other their last decisive blows . Death rages through all their fast - thinning ranks his bleeding victims are ...
... heads gleams the brandished steel , as with full exerted limbs , and faces all inflamed with mortal hate , they level at each other their last decisive blows . Death rages through all their fast - thinning ranks his bleeding victims are ...
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... heads . - They had gone out just to reconnoitre , and harass the British in their approach ! How unbounded then must have been the joy of the garrison , on seeing their friends come back next morning , not sad and spiritless , as had ...
... heads . - They had gone out just to reconnoitre , and harass the British in their approach ! How unbounded then must have been the joy of the garrison , on seeing their friends come back next morning , not sad and spiritless , as had ...
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... . On rushing into the house , and putting out the fire , we saw a mournful sight indeed - a young woman lying on a bed floating in blood - her fole- head cleft with a hatchet - and on her breast 5 * 5 LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 53 · ...
... . On rushing into the house , and putting out the fire , we saw a mournful sight indeed - a young woman lying on a bed floating in blood - her fole- head cleft with a hatchet - and on her breast 5 * 5 LIFE OF WASHINGTON . 53 · ...
Stran 54
... head cleft with a hatchet - and on her breast two little children , apparently twins , and about nine months old , bathing her bosom with the crimson currents flowing from their deeply gashed heads ! I had often beheld the mangled ...
... head cleft with a hatchet - and on her breast two little children , apparently twins , and about nine months old , bathing her bosom with the crimson currents flowing from their deeply gashed heads ! I had often beheld the mangled ...
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... head of all these stood the accomplished Mrs. Martha Custis , the beautiful and wealthy widow of Mr. John Custis . Her wealth was equal at least , to one hundred thousand dollars ! But her beauty was a sum far larger still . It was not ...
... head of all these stood the accomplished Mrs. Martha Custis , the beautiful and wealthy widow of Mr. John Custis . Her wealth was equal at least , to one hundred thousand dollars ! But her beauty was a sum far larger still . It was not ...
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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