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... never left his own country , and who when he died held no other office than the titular command of a provisional army . Yet although these marks of respect from foreign nations were notable and striking , they were slight and formal in ...
... never left his own country , and who when he died held no other office than the titular command of a provisional army . Yet although these marks of respect from foreign nations were notable and striking , they were slight and formal in ...
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... never been wholly ex- tinguished . Let some man arise great above the ordinary bounds of greatness , and the feeling which caused our progenitors to bow down at the shrines of their forefathers and chiefs leads us to invest our modern ...
... never been wholly ex- tinguished . Let some man arise great above the ordinary bounds of greatness , and the feeling which caused our progenitors to bow down at the shrines of their forefathers and chiefs leads us to invest our modern ...
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... never had heard even the name of the author . To Weems we owe the anecdote of the cherry - tree , and other tales of a similar nature . He wrote with Dr. Beattie's life of his son before him as a model , and the result is that ...
... never had heard even the name of the author . To Weems we owe the anecdote of the cherry - tree , and other tales of a similar nature . He wrote with Dr. Beattie's life of his son before him as a model , and the result is that ...
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... never was but one . But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so distorted by misleading criti- cisms , that , as has already been suggested , he has been wellnigh lost . We have the religious or statuesque ...
... never was but one . But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so distorted by misleading criti- cisms , that , as has already been suggested , he has been wellnigh lost . We have the religious or statuesque ...
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Henry Cabot Lodge. But this cannot be world has never seen the like . all : there must be more behind . Every one knows the famous Stuart portrait of Washington . The last effort of the artist's cunning is there employed to paint his ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. But this cannot be world has never seen the like . all : there must be more behind . Every one knows the famous Stuart portrait of Washington . The last effort of the artist's cunning is there employed to paint his ...
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