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... taken violent possession of the Washington ancestry , and an in- genious gentleman has traced the pedigree of our first president back to Thorfinn and thence to Odin , which is sufficiently remote , dignified , and lofty to 30 GEORGE ...
... taken violent possession of the Washington ancestry , and an in- genious gentleman has traced the pedigree of our first president back to Thorfinn and thence to Odin , which is sufficiently remote , dignified , and lofty to 30 GEORGE ...
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... taken firm root in other parts of England . We hear of several who came in various ways to eminence . There was the learned and vigorous prior of Durham , John De Wessyng . ton , probably one of the original family , and the name ...
... taken firm root in other parts of England . We hear of several who came in various ways to eminence . There was the learned and vigorous prior of Durham , John De Wessyng . ton , probably one of the original family , and the name ...
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... taken bodily from Dr. Beattie's bio- graphical sketch of his son , published in England in 1799 , and may be dismissed at once . As to the other two more familiar anecdotes there is not a scintilla of evidence that they had any ...
... taken bodily from Dr. Beattie's bio- graphical sketch of his son , published in England in 1799 , and may be dismissed at once . As to the other two more familiar anecdotes there is not a scintilla of evidence that they had any ...
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... taken from Bridges Creek to the banks of the Rappahannock . There he was placed under the charge of one Hobby , the sexton of the parish , to learn his alphabet and his pothooks ; and when that worthy man's store of learning was ...
... taken from Bridges Creek to the banks of the Rappahannock . There he was placed under the charge of one Hobby , the sexton of the parish , to learn his alphabet and his pothooks ; and when that worthy man's store of learning was ...
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... taken pris- oners , only one of the party escaping to carry back the news . This little skirmish made a prodigious noise in its day , and was much heralded in France . The French declared that Jumonville , the leader , who fell at the ...
... taken pris- oners , only one of the party escaping to carry back the news . This little skirmish made a prodigious noise in its day , and was much heralded in France . The French declared that Jumonville , the leader , who fell at the ...
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