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... Washing- ton and America were models for the world at large , France , I repeat , should depart from established usages and do honor to one whose fame is beyond comparison with that of others . " The man who , amid the decadence of ...
... Washing- ton and America were models for the world at large , France , I repeat , should depart from established usages and do honor to one whose fame is beyond comparison with that of others . " The man who , amid the decadence of ...
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... Washing- ton was more decided than Ching Shing or Woo Kwang ; in winning a country he was braver than Tsau Tsau or Ling Pi . Wielding his four - footed falchion , he extended the frontiers and refused to accept the Royal Dignity . The ...
... Washing- ton was more decided than Ching Shing or Woo Kwang ; in winning a country he was braver than Tsau Tsau or Ling Pi . Wielding his four - footed falchion , he extended the frontiers and refused to accept the Royal Dignity . The ...
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... Washing- ton , of trifling historical value , yet with sufficient literary skill to make it widely popular . It neither appealed to nor was read by the cultivated and in- structed few , but it reached the homes of the masses of the ...
... Washing- ton , of trifling historical value , yet with sufficient literary skill to make it widely popular . It neither appealed to nor was read by the cultivated and in- structed few , but it reached the homes of the masses of the ...
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... of our armies and the first President of the United States . Such are the myth - makers . They are widely dif ferent from the critics who have assailed Washing . ton in a sidelong way , and who can be INTRODUCTION . 11.
... of our armies and the first President of the United States . Such are the myth - makers . They are widely dif ferent from the critics who have assailed Washing . ton in a sidelong way , and who can be INTRODUCTION . 11.
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... Wash- ington discovered , because there never was but one . But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so distorted by misleading criti- cisms , that , as has already been suggested , he has been wellnigh lost ...
... Wash- ington discovered , because there never was but one . But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so distorted by misleading criti- cisms , that , as has already been suggested , he has been wellnigh lost ...
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