George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... carried it home with them to their firesides and to their churches , to their offices and their workshops . Every preacher took the life which had closed as the noblest of texts , and every orator made it the theme of his loftiest ...
... carried it home with them to their firesides and to their churches , to their offices and their workshops . Every preacher took the life which had closed as the noblest of texts , and every orator made it the theme of his loftiest ...
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... carried across the continent on the first waves of advancing settlement . Its anecdotes and its sim- plicity of thought commended it to children both at home and at school , and , passing through edition after edition , its statements ...
... carried across the continent on the first waves of advancing settlement . Its anecdotes and its sim- plicity of thought commended it to children both at home and at school , and , passing through edition after edition , its statements ...
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... carried it back to the Norman knight , Sir Wil- liam de Hertburn . According to this pedigree the Virginian settlers , John and Lawrence , were the sons of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor , and this genealogy was adopted by Sparks ...
... carried it back to the Norman knight , Sir Wil- liam de Hertburn . According to this pedigree the Virginian settlers , John and Lawrence , were the sons of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor , and this genealogy was adopted by Sparks ...
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... , knights and gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... , knights and gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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Henry Cabot Lodge. blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild Berserker spirit which made the adventurous North- men for centuries the terror of Europe . They were a strong race evidently , these Washingtons , whom we see now ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild Berserker spirit which made the adventurous North- men for centuries the terror of Europe . They were a strong race evidently , these Washingtons , whom we see now ...
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