George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... course , but what made this mourning memorable was that the land seemed hushed with sadness , and that the sorrow dwelt among the people and was neither forced nor fleeting . Men carried it home with them to their firesides and to their ...
... course , but what made this mourning memorable was that the land seemed hushed with sadness , and that the sorrow dwelt among the people and was neither forced nor fleeting . Men carried it home with them to their firesides and to their ...
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... course of years or centuries the nearest approach we can make to final judgment on things human . Don Quixote may be dumb to one man , and the sonnets of Shakespeare may leave another cold and weary . But the fault is in the reader ...
... course of years or centuries the nearest approach we can make to final judgment on things human . Don Quixote may be dumb to one man , and the sonnets of Shakespeare may leave another cold and weary . But the fault is in the reader ...
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... course , vast differences in the condition of the planters . Some counted their acres by thousands and their slaves by hundreds , while others scrambled along as best they might with one plantation and a few score of negroes . Some ...
... course , vast differences in the condition of the planters . Some counted their acres by thousands and their slaves by hundreds , while others scrambled along as best they might with one plantation and a few score of negroes . Some ...
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... course nine tenths of his book , has passed , despite its success , into oblivion . The remaining tenth described Washington's boyhood until his four- teenth or fifteenth year , and this , which is the work of the author's imagination ...
... course nine tenths of his book , has passed , despite its success , into oblivion . The remaining tenth described Washington's boyhood until his four- teenth or fifteenth year , and this , which is the work of the author's imagination ...
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... world with the notion of an intimacy which the title implied . Weems , of course , had no difficulty with the public life , but in describing the boyhood he was thrown on his own resources , and out of them 42 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... world with the notion of an intimacy which the title implied . Weems , of course , had no difficulty with the public life , but in describing the boyhood he was thrown on his own resources , and out of them 42 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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