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We have the fullest assurance , say they , that whenever this important contest
shall be decided , by that fondest wish of each American soul , an
accommodation with our Mother Country , you will cheerfully resign the important
deposit ...
We have the fullest assurance , say they , that whenever this important contest
shall be decided , by that fondest wish of each American soul , an
accommodation with our Mother Country , you will cheerfully resign the important
deposit ...
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The duties of the field preciuded General WASHINGTon from a primary agency in
this important , national measure ; but it met his full approbation . On the
reception of the instrument , he wrote as follows to the President of Congress " I ...
The duties of the field preciuded General WASHINGTon from a primary agency in
this important , national measure ; but it met his full approbation . On the
reception of the instrument , he wrote as follows to the President of Congress " I ...
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But he possessed , in a degree which few other men ever did , the faculty to
suspend his own judgment on every important subject , until he had exhausted
every source of information , and had fully weighed the opinions of those about
him .
But he possessed , in a degree which few other men ever did , the faculty to
suspend his own judgment on every important subject , until he had exhausted
every source of information , and had fully weighed the opinions of those about
him .
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| Titel | The Life of George Washington: Commander-in-chief of the American Army Through the Revolutionary War, and the First President of the United States |
| Autor/in | Aaron Bancroft |
| Verlag | Henry T. Coates, 1882 |
| Original von | University of California, Irvine |
| Digitalisiert | 6. März 2017 |
| Länge | 489 Seiten |
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