George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... arms , even his clothes , have all passed beneath the merciless microscope of history . His biography has been written and rewritten . His letters have been drawn out from every lurk- ing place , and have been given to the world in ...
... arms , even his clothes , have all passed beneath the merciless microscope of history . His biography has been written and rewritten . His letters have been drawn out from every lurk- ing place , and have been given to the world in ...
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... arms , worked out a genealogy which seemed reasonable enough , and then wrote to the president in relation to it . Washington in reply thanked him for his politeness , sent him the Virginian genealogy of his own branch , and after ...
... arms , worked out a genealogy which seemed reasonable enough , and then wrote to the president in relation to it . Washington in reply thanked him for his politeness , sent him the Virginian genealogy of his own branch , and after ...
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... arms . Still more recently the mythical spirit has 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 ...
... arms . Still more recently the mythical spirit has 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 ...
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... arms and of Christian names seems to prove them scions of that race , and the failure to connect them with any other family of the name in England corrobo- rates this theory.1 In that interesting land where 1 Colonel Chester ( N. E. ...
... arms and of Christian names seems to prove them scions of that race , and the failure to connect them with any other family of the name in England corrobo- rates this theory.1 In that interesting land where 1 Colonel Chester ( N. E. ...
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... arms , the expedition was not a very brilliant affair . The Virginians and Marylanders killed half a dozen Indian chiefs during a parley , and then invested the fort . After repulsing several sorties , they stupidly allowed the Indians ...
... arms , the expedition was not a very brilliant affair . The Virginians and Marylanders killed half a dozen Indian chiefs during a parley , and then invested the fort . After repulsing several sorties , they stupidly allowed the Indians ...
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