George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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Henry Cabot Lodge. for the hero thus engendered had qualities which the national sense of humor could not endure in silence . The consequence is , that the Washington of Weems has afforded an endless theme for joke and burlesque . Every ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. for the hero thus engendered had qualities which the national sense of humor could not endure in silence . The consequence is , that the Washington of Weems has afforded an endless theme for joke and burlesque . Every ...
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... sense this is quite right , in another totally wrong . There can be no new Wash- ington discovered , because there never was but one . But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so distorted by misleading ...
... sense this is quite right , in another totally wrong . There can be no new Wash- ington discovered , because there never was but one . But the real man has been so overlaid with myths and traditions , and so distorted by misleading ...
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... and gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... and gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... sense , and had the power of conducting business matters providently and ex- actly . She was an imperious woman , of strong will , ruling her kingdom alone . Above all she was very dignified , very silent , and very sober - minded ...
... sense , and had the power of conducting business matters providently and ex- actly . She was an imperious woman , of strong will , ruling her kingdom alone . Above all she was very dignified , very silent , and very sober - minded ...
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... sense , training , or morals , ready to take the slenderest fact and work it up for the purposes of the market until it became almost as impossible to reduce it to its original dimensions as it was for the fisherman to get the Afrit ...
... sense , training , or morals , ready to take the slenderest fact and work it up for the purposes of the market until it became almost as impossible to reduce it to its original dimensions as it was for the fisherman to get the Afrit ...
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