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... head . Great eye , Gross jaw , and griped lips do what granite can To give you the crown - grasper . What a man ! " In death as in life , there is something about Washington , call it greatness , dignity , majesty , what you will ...
... head . Great eye , Gross jaw , and griped lips do what granite can To give you the crown - grasper . What a man ! " In death as in life , there is something about Washington , call it greatness , dignity , majesty , what you will ...
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... heads at such spendthrifts as these , refuse to discount their paper , and confidently predict that by no possibility could they come to good . They had their defects , no doubt , these planters and farm- ers of Virginia . The life they ...
... heads at such spendthrifts as these , refuse to discount their paper , and confidently predict that by no possibility could they come to good . They had their defects , no doubt , these planters and farm- ers of Virginia . The life they ...
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... head of the family , Lawrence Washington had received the lion's share of the property , including the estate at Hunting Creek , on the Potomac , which he chris- tened Mount Vernon , after his admiral , and where he settled down and ...
... head of the family , Lawrence Washington had received the lion's share of the property , including the estate at Hunting Creek , on the Potomac , which he chris- tened Mount Vernon , after his admiral , and where he settled down and ...
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... head of the family into which Lawrence Washington had married . Thomas , Lord Fairfax , then sixty years of age , had come to Virginia to live upon and look after the kingdom which he had inherited in the wilderness . He came of a noble ...
... head of the family into which Lawrence Washington had married . Thomas , Lord Fairfax , then sixty years of age , had come to Virginia to live upon and look after the kingdom which he had inherited in the wilderness . He came of a noble ...
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... head- long into the fight . He rode up and down the field , carrying orders and striving to rally " the das- tards , " as he afterwards called the regular troops . He endeavored to bring up the artillery , but the men would not serve ...
... head- long into the fight . He rode up and down the field , carrying orders and striving to rally " the das- tards , " as he afterwards called the regular troops . He endeavored to bring up the artillery , but the men would not serve ...
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