George Washington, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1917 |
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... ment of humanity , more ancient and more lasting than any records or monuments , which led men in the dawn of history to worship their ancestors and the founders of states , still endures . As the centuries have gone by , this sentiment ...
... ment of humanity , more ancient and more lasting than any records or monuments , which led men in the dawn of history to worship their ancestors and the founders of states , still endures . As the centuries have gone by , this sentiment ...
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... ment is the Washington of the humorist a myth . Both alike are utterly and crudely false . They semble their great original as much as Greenough's classically nude statue , exposed to the incongruities of the North American climate ...
... ment is the Washington of the humorist a myth . Both alike are utterly and crudely false . They semble their great original as much as Greenough's classically nude statue , exposed to the incongruities of the North American climate ...
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... ment were the last words and the ultimate ideals of civilization , it is rather agreeable to turn to such a community as the eighteenth - century planters of Virginia . They lived contentedly on the acres of their fathers , and except ...
... ment were the last words and the ultimate ideals of civilization , it is rather agreeable to turn to such a community as the eighteenth - century planters of Virginia . They lived contentedly on the acres of their fathers , and except ...
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... ment , enjoying with hearty zest all the pleasures that youth and life could furnish . He who wrote these lines was evidently a vigorous , good - hu- mored young fellow , with a quick eye for the world opening before him , and for the ...
... ment , enjoying with hearty zest all the pleasures that youth and life could furnish . He who wrote these lines was evidently a vigorous , good - hu- mored young fellow , with a quick eye for the world opening before him , and for the ...
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... ment ; he rose early , worked steadily , gave to every- thing his personal supervision , kept his own accounts with wonderful exactness , and naturally enough his brands of flour went unquestioned everywhere , his credit was high , and ...
... ment ; he rose early , worked steadily , gave to every- thing his personal supervision , kept his own accounts with wonderful exactness , and naturally enough his brands of flour went unquestioned everywhere , his credit was high , and ...
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