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Still more recently the mythical spirit has taken violent possession of the
Washington ancestry , and an ingenious gentleman has traced the pedigree of
our first president back to Thorfinn and thence to Odin , which is sufficiently
remote ...
Still more recently the mythical spirit has taken violent possession of the
Washington ancestry , and an ingenious gentleman has traced the pedigree of
our first president back to Thorfinn and thence to Odin , which is sufficiently
remote ...
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... knights of the palatinate was extinct , and the manor passed from the family by
the marriage of Dionisia de Wessyngton . But the main stock had in the mean
time thrown out many offshoots , which had taken firm root in other parts of
England ...
... knights of the palatinate was extinct , and the manor passed from the family by
the marriage of Dionisia de Wessyngton . But the main stock had in the mean
time thrown out many offshoots , which had taken firm root in other parts of
England ...
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This tale is taken bodily from Dr. Beattie's biographical sketch of his son ,
published in England in 1799 , and may be dismissed at once . As to the other
two more familiar anecdotes there is not a scintilla of evidence that they had any
...
This tale is taken bodily from Dr. Beattie's biographical sketch of his son ,
published in England in 1799 , and may be dismissed at once . As to the other
two more familiar anecdotes there is not a scintilla of evidence that they had any
...
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We know when and where Washington was born ; and how , when he was little
more than three years old , he was taken from Bridges Creek to the banks of the
Rappahannock . There he was placed under the charge of one Hobby , the
sexton ...
We know when and where Washington was born ; and how , when he was little
more than three years old , he was taken from Bridges Creek to the banks of the
Rappahannock . There he was placed under the charge of one Hobby , the
sexton ...
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Ten of the French were killed and twenty - one were taken prisoners , only one of
the party escaping to carry back the news . This little skirmish made a prodigious
noise in its day , and was much heralded in France . The French declared that ...
Ten of the French were killed and twenty - one were taken prisoners , only one of
the party escaping to carry back the news . This little skirmish made a prodigious
noise in its day , and was much heralded in France . The French declared that ...
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| 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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