George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... things human . Don Quixote may be dumb to one man , and the sonnets of Shakespeare may leave another cold and weary . But the fault is in the reader . There is no doubt of the greatness of Cervantes or Shakespeare , for they have stood ...
... things human . Don Quixote may be dumb to one man , and the sonnets of Shakespeare may leave another cold and weary . But the fault is in the reader . There is no doubt of the greatness of Cervantes or Shakespeare , for they have stood ...
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... things he was an aristocrat , set apart by the dark line of race , color , and heredi- tary servitude , as proud as the proudest Austrian with his endless quarterings , as sturdy and vigor- ous as an English yeoman , and as jealous of ...
... things he was an aristocrat , set apart by the dark line of race , color , and heredi- tary servitude , as proud as the proudest Austrian with his endless quarterings , as sturdy and vigor- ous as an English yeoman , and as jealous of ...
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... things whether for good or evil , with hot blood pulsing in his veins and beating in his heart , with violent passions and relentless will still undeveloped , and no one in all that jolly , generous Virginian society even dimly dreamed ...
... things whether for good or evil , with hot blood pulsing in his veins and beating in his heart , with violent passions and relentless will still undeveloped , and no one in all that jolly , generous Virginian society even dimly dreamed ...
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... things , as well as the progress of their work and their various resting- places , Washington noted down briefly but ... thing and excluded all that was worthless . His work , too , was well done , and Lord Fairfax was so much pleased by ...
... things , as well as the progress of their work and their various resting- places , Washington noted down briefly but ... thing and excluded all that was worthless . His work , too , was well done , and Lord Fairfax was so much pleased by ...
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... in the world , and though he never talked of his reading , preserving silence on that as on other things concerning himself , no one ever was able to record an instance in which he showed himself ignorant ON THE FRONTIER . 59.
... in the world , and though he never talked of his reading , preserving silence on that as on other things concerning himself , no one ever was able to record an instance in which he showed himself ignorant ON THE FRONTIER . 59.
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