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The English tobacco-ships worked their way up the rivers, taking the great staple,
and leaving their varied goods, and their tardy news from Europe, wherever they
stopped. This was the sum of the information and intercourse which Virginia got ...
The English tobacco-ships worked their way up the rivers, taking the great staple,
and leaving their varied goods, and their tardy news from Europe, wherever they
stopped. This was the sum of the information and intercourse which Virginia got ...
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The English trader would come and go ; the infrequent stranger would be
received and welcomed ; Christmas would be kept in hearty English fashion;
young men from a neighboring estate would ride over through the darkening
woods to ...
The English trader would come and go ; the infrequent stranger would be
received and welcomed ; Christmas would be kept in hearty English fashion;
young men from a neighboring estate would ride over through the darkening
woods to ...
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Above all things he was an aristocrat, set apart by the dark line of race, color, and
hereditary servitude, as proud as the proudest Austrian with his endless
quarterings, as sturdy and vigorous as an English yeoman, and as jealous of his
rights ...
Above all things he was an aristocrat, set apart by the dark line of race, color, and
hereditary servitude, as proud as the proudest Austrian with his endless
quarterings, as sturdy and vigorous as an English yeoman, and as jealous of his
rights ...
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His knowledge about his English forefathers was in fact extremely slight. He had
heard merely that the first of the name in Virginia had come from one of the
northern counties of England, but whether from Lancashire or Yorkshire, or one
still ...
His knowledge about his English forefathers was in fact extremely slight. He had
heard merely that the first of the name in Virginia had come from one of the
northern counties of England, but whether from Lancashire or Yorkshire, or one
still ...
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He soon after was called to mourn the death of his English wife and of two
children, but he speedily consoled himself by taking a second wife, Anne Pope,
by whom he had three children, Lawrence, John, and Anne. According to the
Virginian ...
He soon after was called to mourn the death of his English wife and of two
children, but he speedily consoled himself by taking a second wife, Anne Pope,
by whom he had three children, Lawrence, John, and Anne. According to the
Virginian ...
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| Titel | George Washington, Band 1 Bände 4-5 von American statesmen George Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Autor | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917 |
| Original von | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitalisiert | 15. Apr. 2009 |
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