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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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As the centuries have gone by , this sentiment has lost its religious flavor , and
has become more and more restricted in its application , but it has never been
wholly extinguished . Let some man arise great above the ordinary bounds of ...
As the centuries have gone by , this sentiment has lost its religious flavor , and
has become more and more restricted in its application , but it has never been
wholly extinguished . Let some man arise great above the ordinary bounds of ...
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... simplicity of thought commended it to children both at home and at school , and
, passing through edition after edition , its statements were widely spread , and it
colored insensibly the ideas of hundreds of persons who never had heard even ...
... simplicity of thought commended it to children both at home and at school , and
, passing through edition after edition , its statements were widely spread , and it
colored insensibly the ideas of hundreds of persons who never had heard even ...
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There can be no new Washington discovered , because there never was but one
. But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so
distorted by misleading criticisms , that , as has already been suggested , he has
been ...
There can be no new Washington discovered , because there never was but one
. But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so
distorted by misleading criticisms , that , as has already been suggested , he has
been ...
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world has never seen the like . But this cannot be all : there must be more behind
. Every one knows the famous Stuart portrait of Washington . The last effort of the
artist's cunning is there employed to paint his great subject for posterity .
world has never seen the like . But this cannot be all : there must be more behind
. Every one knows the famous Stuart portrait of Washington . The last effort of the
artist's cunning is there employed to paint his great subject for posterity .
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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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