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... character , and with virtues that even envy dared not as- sail . History offers few examples of such renown . Great from the outset of his career , patriotic before his country had become a nation , brilliant and universal despite the ...
... character , and with virtues that even envy dared not as- sail . History offers few examples of such renown . Great from the outset of his career , patriotic before his country had become a nation , brilliant and universal despite the ...
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... character which no one could fail to re- spect . Around other leaders of men , even around the greatest of them , sharp controversies have arisen , and they have their partisans dead as they had them living . Washington had enemies who ...
... character which no one could fail to re- spect . Around other leaders of men , even around the greatest of them , sharp controversies have arisen , and they have their partisans dead as they had them living . Washington had enemies who ...
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... character , and picture him in our imagination as a being to whom , a few thousand years ago , altars would have been builded and libations poured out . Thus we have to - day in our minds a Washington grand , solemn , and impressive ...
... character , and picture him in our imagination as a being to whom , a few thousand years ago , altars would have been builded and libations poured out . Thus we have to - day in our minds a Washington grand , solemn , and impressive ...
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... character of the men who made the state . Above the slaves , little better than they , but sep- arated from them by the wide gulf of race and color , were the indented white servants , some con- victs , some redemptioners . They , too ...
... character of the men who made the state . Above the slaves , little better than they , but sep- arated from them by the wide gulf of race and color , were the indented white servants , some con- victs , some redemptioners . They , too ...
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... character of a great man by examin- ing first the history of his forefathers . Washington made so great an impression upon the world in his lifetime that genealogists at once undertook for him the construction of a suitable pedigree ...
... character of a great man by examin- ing first the history of his forefathers . Washington made so great an impression upon the world in his lifetime that genealogists at once undertook for him the construction of a suitable pedigree ...
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