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... French republic ) : - " Report of Talleyrand , Minister of Foreign Affairs , on the occasion of the death of George Washington . " A nation which some day will be a great nation , and which to- day is the wisest and happiest on the face ...
... French republic ) : - " Report of Talleyrand , Minister of Foreign Affairs , on the occasion of the death of George Washington . " A nation which some day will be a great nation , and which to- day is the wisest and happiest on the face ...
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... gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... French revolution discussing the propriety of worshipping the God- dess of Reason . To enter into any serious historical criticism ot these stories would be to break a butterfly . So much as this even has been said only because these ...
... French revolution discussing the propriety of worshipping the God- dess of Reason . To enter into any serious historical criticism ot these stories would be to break a butterfly . So much as this even has been said only because these ...
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... French . He went in a schoolboy ; he came out the first soldier in the colonies , and one of the leading men of Virginia . Let us pause a moment and look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period , rightly called ...
... French . He went in a schoolboy ; he came out the first soldier in the colonies , and one of the leading men of Virginia . Let us pause a moment and look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period , rightly called ...
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... French and English . The rival nations had been for years slowly ap- proaching each other , until in 1749 each people proceeded at last to take possession of the Ohio country after its own fashion . The French sent a military expedition ...
... French and English . The rival nations had been for years slowly ap- proaching each other , until in 1749 each people proceeded at last to take possession of the Ohio country after its own fashion . The French sent a military expedition ...
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