George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... reached , becomes in the 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 ...
... reached , becomes in the 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 ...
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... reached farther than we can readily conceive . Washington stands as a type , and has stamped himself deep upon the imagination of mankind . Whether the image be true or false is of no conse- quence : the fact endures . He rises up from ...
... reached farther than we can readily conceive . Washington stands as a type , and has stamped himself deep upon the imagination of mankind . Whether the image be true or false is of no conse- quence : the fact endures . He rises up from ...
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... reached the homes of the masses of the people . It found its way to the bench of the mechanic , to the house of the farmer , to the log cabins of the frontiersman and pioneer . It was carried across the continent on the first waves of ...
... reached the homes of the masses of the people . It found its way to the bench of the mechanic , to the house of the farmer , to the log cabins of the frontiersman and pioneer . It was carried across the continent on the first waves of ...
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... reached . Such an idea was certainly far , very far , from the truth . Behind the popular myths , behind the ... reaching thoughts , and who was in- formed throughout his being with a resistless will . The veil of his silence is not ...
... reached . Such an idea was certainly far , very far , from the truth . Behind the popular myths , behind the ... reaching thoughts , and who was in- formed throughout his being with a resistless will . The veil of his silence is not ...
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... reached the Blue Ridge . Behind the mountains was the wilderness , haunted , as old John Lederer said a century earlier , by mon- sters , and inhabited , as the eighteenth - century Vir- ginians very well knew , by savages and wild ...
... reached the Blue Ridge . Behind the mountains was the wilderness , haunted , as old John Lederer said a century earlier , by mon- sters , and inhabited , as the eighteenth - century Vir- ginians very well knew , by savages and wild ...
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