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... obliging London merchants always ready to furnish every luxury in return for the mortgage of a crop or an estate . So they gave themselves little anxiety as to the future and lived in the present , very much to their own satisfaction ...
... obliging London merchants always ready to furnish every luxury in return for the mortgage of a crop or an estate . So they gave themselves little anxiety as to the future and lived in the present , very much to their own satisfaction ...
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... obliged by the exhausted condition of his men to stop . He at once resumed work on Fort Necessity , and made ready for a desperate defence , for the French were on his heels , and on July 3d appeared at the Meadows . Washington offered ...
... obliged by the exhausted condition of his men to stop . He at once resumed work on Fort Necessity , and made ready for a desperate defence , for the French were on his heels , and on July 3d appeared at the Meadows . Washington offered ...
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... obliged to travel to Boston in order to have the miserable thing set right by Governor Shirley . This affair settled , he returned to take up again the old disheartening struggle , and his outspoken condemnation of Dinwiddie's foolish ...
... obliged to travel to Boston in order to have the miserable thing set right by Governor Shirley . This affair settled , he returned to take up again the old disheartening struggle , and his outspoken condemnation of Dinwiddie's foolish ...
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... obliged , nevertheless , to buy butter , which suggests an experience not unknown to gentlemen farmers of any period , and also that company was never lacking in that generous , open house over- looking the Potomac . Beyond the bounds ...
... obliged , nevertheless , to buy butter , which suggests an experience not unknown to gentlemen farmers of any period , and also that company was never lacking in that generous , open house over- looking the Potomac . Beyond the bounds ...
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... obliged to rely upon a people who were brave and patriotic , but also undis- ciplined , untrained , and unprepared for war , with- out money , without arms , without allies or credit , and torn by selfish local interests . Nobody else ...
... obliged to rely upon a people who were brave and patriotic , but also undis- ciplined , untrained , and unprepared for war , with- out money , without arms , without allies or credit , and torn by selfish local interests . Nobody else ...
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