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About the same time , if tradition may be trusted , the flags upon the conquering
Channel fleet of England were lowered to half - mast in token of grief the bier of a
man whose courage and genius contributed the most to free it from bondage ...
About the same time , if tradition may be trusted , the flags upon the conquering
Channel fleet of England were lowered to half - mast in token of grief the bier of a
man whose courage and genius contributed the most to free it from bondage ...
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These signal honors were paid by England and France to a simple Virginian
gentleman who had 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 ...
These signal honors were paid by England and France to a simple Virginian
gentleman who had 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 ...
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They ranged from hedge parsons and Fleet chaplains , who had slunk away from
England to find a desirable obscurity in the new world , to divines of real learning
and genuine piety , who were the supporters of the college , and who would ...
They ranged from hedge parsons and Fleet chaplains , who had slunk away from
England to find a desirable obscurity in the new world , to divines of real learning
and genuine piety , who were the supporters of the college , and who would ...
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In some of the great families , the eldest sons would be sent to England and to
the great universities : they would make the grand tour , play a part in the
fashionable society of London , and come back to their plantations fine
gentlemen and ...
In some of the great families , the eldest sons would be sent to England and to
the great universities : they would make the grand tour , play a part in the
fashionable society of London , and come back to their plantations fine
gentlemen and ...
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When Harry Warrington arrived in England , all his relations at Castlewood
regarded the handsome young fellow as a prince , with his acres and his slaves .
It was a natural and pleasing delusion , born of the possession of land and serfs ,
to ...
When Harry Warrington arrived in England , all his relations at Castlewood
regarded the handsome young fellow as a prince , with his acres and his slaves .
It was a natural and pleasing delusion , born of the possession of land and serfs ,
to ...
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | George Washington, Band 1 Bände 4-5 von American statesmen George Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Autor/in | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Verlag | Houghton Mifflin, 1917 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Juli 2006 |
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