Character Portraits of Washington as Delineated by Historians, Orators and Divines: Selected and Arranged in Chronological Order with Biographical Notes and ReferencesR. M. Lindsay, 1887 - 351 Seiten |
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... fame , shuts his ears to the supplications of pity , and hardening his heart for the work of devastation , wars to establish a shining in- famy , by the destruction of his fellow - creatures on the smoking ruins . of desolated kingdoms ...
... fame , shuts his ears to the supplications of pity , and hardening his heart for the work of devastation , wars to establish a shining in- famy , by the destruction of his fellow - creatures on the smoking ruins . of desolated kingdoms ...
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... fame . Ancient and modern names are diminished before him . Greatness and guilt have too often been allied ; but his fame is whiter 58 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . than it is 8 ( 57 )
... fame . Ancient and modern names are diminished before him . Greatness and guilt have too often been allied ; but his fame is whiter 58 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . than it is 8 ( 57 )
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... fame . The attributes and decorations of royalty , could have only served to eclipse the majesty of those virtues which made him , from being a modest citizen , a more resplendent luminary . Misfortune , had he lived , could hereafter ...
... fame . The attributes and decorations of royalty , could have only served to eclipse the majesty of those virtues which made him , from being a modest citizen , a more resplendent luminary . Misfortune , had he lived , could hereafter ...
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... fame survives ! bounded only by the limits of the earth , and by the extent of the human mind . He survives in our hearts , in the growing knowledge of our children , in the affection of the good , throughout the world ; and when our ...
... fame survives ! bounded only by the limits of the earth , and by the extent of the human mind . He survives in our hearts , in the growing knowledge of our children , in the affection of the good , throughout the world ; and when our ...
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... fame , he stood the bulwark of our safety ; undismayed by disaster ; unchanged by change of fortune ? Or will you view him in the precarious fields of Trenton , where deep gloom unnerving every arm , reigned triumphant through our ...
... fame , he stood the bulwark of our safety ; undismayed by disaster ; unchanged by change of fortune ? Or will you view him in the precarious fields of Trenton , where deep gloom unnerving every arm , reigned triumphant through our ...
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