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... Weems . He wrote a brief biography of 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 ...
... Weems . He wrote a brief biography of 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 ...
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... Weems has afforded an endless theme for joke and burlesque . Every professional American hu- morist almost has tried his hand at it ; and with each recurring 22d of February the hard - worked jesters of the daily newspapers take it up ...
... Weems has afforded an endless theme for joke and burlesque . Every professional American hu- morist almost has tried his hand at it ; and with each recurring 22d of February the hard - worked jesters of the daily newspapers take it up ...
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... Weems myth , and the ludicrous myth of the writer of paragraphs . We have the stately hero of Sparks , and Everett , and Marshall , and Irving , with all his great deeds as general and president duly recorded and set down in polished ...
... Weems myth , and the ludicrous myth of the writer of paragraphs . We have the stately hero of Sparks , and Everett , and Marshall , and Irving , with all his great deeds as general and president duly recorded and set down in polished ...
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... Weems , and to that per sonage a few more words must be devoted . Weems THE WASHINGTONS . 39.
... Weems , and to that per sonage a few more words must be devoted . Weems THE WASHINGTONS . 39.
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... Weems and his book , for he was not a complex character , and neither he nor his writings are diffi- cult to value or understand . By profession a clergy- man or preacher , by nature an adventurer , Weems loved notoriety , money , and a ...
... Weems and his book , for he was not a complex character , and neither he nor his writings are diffi- cult to value or understand . By profession a clergy- man or preacher , by nature an adventurer , Weems loved notoriety , money , and a ...
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