George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... look upon . the dining - room of Memorial Hall at Cambridge another portrait , painted by Savage . It is cold and dry , hard enough to serve for the signboard of an inn , and able , one would think , to withstand all weathers . Yet this ...
... look upon . the dining - room of Memorial Hall at Cambridge another portrait , painted by Savage . It is cold and dry , hard enough to serve for the signboard of an inn , and able , one would think , to withstand all weathers . Yet this ...
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... look about us and see what we can learn of this important period of his life . We know nothing about his father , except that he was kindly and affectionate , attached to his wife and children , and apparently absorbed in the care of ...
... look about us and see what we can learn of this important period of his life . We know nothing about his father , except that he was kindly and affectionate , attached to his wife and children , and apparently absorbed in the care of ...
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... look longingly to the sea as the highway to fortune and success . To Washington the romance of the sea was represented by the tobacco ship creeping up the river and bringing all the luxuries and many of the necessaries of life from ...
... look longingly to the sea as the highway to fortune and success . To Washington the romance of the sea was represented by the tobacco ship creeping up the river and bringing all the luxuries and many of the necessaries of life from ...
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... look after the kingdom which he had inherited in the wilderness . He came of a noble and distinguished race . Grad- uating at Oxford with credit , he served in the army , dabbled in literature , had his fling in the London world , and ...
... look after the kingdom which he had inherited in the wilderness . He came of a noble and distinguished race . Grad- uating at Oxford with credit , he served in the army , dabbled in literature , had his fling in the London world , and ...
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... look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period , rightly called momentous because it was the formative period in the life of such a man . He had just passed his sixteenth birthday . He was tall and muscular ...
... look at him as he stands on the threshold of this momentous period , rightly called momentous because it was the formative period in the life of such a man . He had just passed his sixteenth birthday . He was tall and muscular ...
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