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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... smile . " George Washington a buckskin ! pshaw ! impossible ! he was certainly an European : So great a man could never have been born in America . " So great a man could never have been born in America ! —why that's the very prince of ...
... smile . " George Washington a buckskin ! pshaw ! impossible ! he was certainly an European : So great a man could never have been born in America . " So great a man could never have been born in America ! —why that's the very prince of ...
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... smiling and lovely , as the joy of their hearts they see us creeping in like young black- guards , with our heads bound up , black eyes , and bloody clothes ! And what is all this for ? Why , that we may get praise !! But the truth is ...
... smiling and lovely , as the joy of their hearts they see us creeping in like young black- guards , with our heads bound up , black eyes , and bloody clothes ! And what is all this for ? Why , that we may get praise !! But the truth is ...
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... smile and smile , " and yet design the death of the traveller . These important truths present themselves intuitively to his mind ; and shine with such lustre in the pages of his journal , as to com- mand the admiration of every ...
... smile and smile , " and yet design the death of the traveller . These important truths present themselves intuitively to his mind ; and shine with such lustre in the pages of his journal , as to com- mand the admiration of every ...
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... smiling at Washington , as a green horn , and at Dinwiddie as an old fool , conti nued his operations as vigorously as though he knew not that the country in question made a part of the British empire . Swift as the broad - winged ...
... smiling at Washington , as a green horn , and at Dinwiddie as an old fool , conti nued his operations as vigorously as though he knew not that the country in question made a part of the British empire . Swift as the broad - winged ...
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... smile , " at such prospects of blood and plunder , the grim children of the desert , rose up at once to war . No time was lost in preparation . A pouch of parch- ed corn , and a bear - skin , with a rifle , tomahawk , and scalping knife ...
... smile , " at such prospects of blood and plunder , the grim children of the desert , rose up at once to war . No time was lost in preparation . A pouch of parch- ed corn , and a bear - skin , with a rifle , tomahawk , and scalping knife ...
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