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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... peace , plenty , and happiness , in which Washington delighted . But his eulogists have denied him these , the only scenes which belong to man the GREAT ; and have trick'd him up in the vile drapery of man the little . See ! there he ...
... peace , plenty , and happiness , in which Washington delighted . But his eulogists have denied him these , the only scenes which belong to man the GREAT ; and have trick'd him up in the vile drapery of man the little . See ! there he ...
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... peace , and brought up to the simple harmless employment of a surveyor , an employment which , more than any other , tends to tranquillize the mind . The verdure and music of the love - breathing spring ; the bright fields and harvests ...
... peace , and brought up to the simple harmless employment of a surveyor , an employment which , more than any other , tends to tranquillize the mind . The verdure and music of the love - breathing spring ; the bright fields and harvests ...
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... peace , to desist from such unwarrant . able measures . But all to no purpose : for the French commandant , smiling at Washington , as a green horn , and at Dinwiddie as an old fool , conti nued his operations as vigorously as though he ...
... peace , to desist from such unwarrant . able measures . But all to no purpose : for the French commandant , smiling at Washington , as a green horn , and at Dinwiddie as an old fool , conti nued his operations as vigorously as though he ...
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... peaceful shores . Orders were immediately issued , by the British government , for the colonies to arm and unite in one confederacy . Virginia took the lead ; and raised a regiment , to the second command in which she raised her ...
... peaceful shores . Orders were immediately issued , by the British government , for the colonies to arm and unite in one confederacy . Virginia took the lead ; and raised a regiment , to the second command in which she raised her ...
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... peace and safety . But to give Colonel Washington two thousand men , seemed to old governor Dinwiddie , like giving the staff out of his own hand , as he elegantly called it ; and rather than do that , he would risk the desolation of ...
... peace and safety . But to give Colonel Washington two thousand men , seemed to old governor Dinwiddie , like giving the staff out of his own hand , as he elegantly called it ; and rather than do that , he would risk the desolation of ...
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