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... feeling , which the highest art could not refine nor the clumsiest fine - writing degrade . From that time to this , the stream of praise has flowed on , ever deepening and strengthening , both at home and abroad . Washington alone in ...
... feeling , which the highest art could not refine nor the clumsiest fine - writing degrade . From that time to this , the stream of praise has flowed on , ever deepening and strengthening , both at home and abroad . Washington alone in ...
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... feeling which caused our progenitors to bow down at the shrines of their forefathers and chiefs leads us to invest our modern hero with a mythical character , and picture him in our imagination as a being to whom , a few thousand years ...
... feeling which caused our progenitors to bow down at the shrines of their forefathers and chiefs leads us to invest our modern hero with a mythical character , and picture him in our imagination as a being to whom , a few thousand years ...
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... feelings , and 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 ...
... feelings , and 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 ...
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... ley assailed his troops for the murder of the Indians during the parley . Popular feeling , however , was clearly with the colonel , for nothing was done and the matter dropped . At that point , too , 36 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... ley assailed his troops for the murder of the Indians during the parley . Popular feeling , however , was clearly with the colonel , for nothing was done and the matter dropped . At that point , too , 36 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... feeling underneath all the bombast and platitudes , and this saved the book . The biography did not go , and was not intended to go , into the hands of the polite society of the great eastern towns . It was meant for the farmers , the ...
... feeling underneath all the bombast and platitudes , and this saved the book . The biography did not go , and was not intended to go , into the hands of the polite society of the great eastern towns . It was meant for the farmers , the ...
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