The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen, Embellished with Six EngravingsLippincott, 1892 - 244 páginas |
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... happy paths of virtue . But well knowing that his beloved charge , soon to be a man , would be left exposed to numberless temptations , both from himself and from ethers , his heart throbbed with the tenderest anxiety to make him ...
... happy paths of virtue . But well knowing that his beloved charge , soon to be a man , would be left exposed to numberless temptations , both from himself and from ethers , his heart throbbed with the tenderest anxiety to make him ...
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... happy he should be once more to see his little son , and give him his blessing before he died . But alas ! he never enjoyed that last mournful pleasure ; for George did not reach home until a few hours before his father's death : and ...
... happy he should be once more to see his little son , and give him his blessing before he died . But alas ! he never enjoyed that last mournful pleasure ; for George did not reach home until a few hours before his father's death : and ...
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... happy believers in a particular Providence can solve certain it is , his earthly parents had no hand in it . For of his father , tradition says nothing , save that he was a most amia- ble old gentlemen ; one who made good crops , and ...
... happy believers in a particular Providence can solve certain it is , his earthly parents had no hand in it . For of his father , tradition says nothing , save that he was a most amia- ble old gentlemen ; one who made good crops , and ...
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... Happy check ! for by this time , covered with wounds Braddock had fallen - his aids and officers , to a man , killed or wounded - and his troops , in hopeless , help- less despair , flying backwards and forwards from the fire of the ...
... Happy check ! for by this time , covered with wounds Braddock had fallen - his aids and officers , to a man , killed or wounded - and his troops , in hopeless , help- less despair , flying backwards and forwards from the fire of the ...
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... happy issue . " In a letter of a later date he says , " well , all's lost ! our enterprise is ruined ! And we shall be stopped this winter at the Laurel Hills ! " By the middle of November , after incredible exer- tions , the army ...
... happy issue . " In a letter of a later date he says , " well , all's lost ! our enterprise is ruined ! And we shall be stopped this winter at the Laurel Hills ! " By the middle of November , after incredible exer- tions , the army ...
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