George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... patriotic before his country had become a nation , brilliant and universal despite the passions and political resentments that would gladly have checked his career , his fame is to - day imperishable , — fortune having consecrated his ...
... patriotic before his country had become a nation , brilliant and universal despite the passions and political resentments that would gladly have checked his career , his fame is to - day imperishable , — fortune having consecrated his ...
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... patriotic , but its members came from a community which for more than half a century had had no fighting , and they knew nothing of war or its necessities . Unaccus- tomed to the large affairs into which they were suddenly plunged ...
... patriotic , but its members came from a community which for more than half a century had had no fighting , and they knew nothing of war or its necessities . Unaccus- tomed to the large affairs into which they were suddenly plunged ...
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... patriotic in heart , trained in law and in history , doing the work of the moment in the best possible way . If anything had been done wrongly , or had been left undone , Washington would have found his voice quickly enough , and ...
... patriotic in heart , trained in law and in history , doing the work of the moment in the best possible way . If anything had been done wrongly , or had been left undone , Washington would have found his voice quickly enough , and ...
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... patriotic , but also undis- ciplined , untrained , and unprepared for war , with- out money , without arms , without allies or credit , and torn by selfish local interests . Nobody else perceived TAKING COMMAND . 131.
... patriotic , but also undis- ciplined , untrained , and unprepared for war , with- out money , without arms , without allies or credit , and torn by selfish local interests . Nobody else perceived TAKING COMMAND . 131.
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... The hard facts remained unchanged . There was the wholly patriotic but slumberous , and for fight- ing purposes quite inefficient Congress still to be waked up and kept awake , and to be instructed SAVING THE REVOLUTION . 167.
... The hard facts remained unchanged . There was the wholly patriotic but slumberous , and for fight- ing purposes quite inefficient Congress still to be waked up and kept awake , and to be instructed SAVING THE REVOLUTION . 167.
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