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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... pure and patriotic , that could proceed from a benevolent heart . His letters to congress during the war , now lately published in England , as well as his circular letter and farewell orders to the armies of the United States , at the ...
... pure and patriotic , that could proceed from a benevolent heart . His letters to congress during the war , now lately published in England , as well as his circular letter and farewell orders to the armies of the United States , at the ...
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... pure and wise principles announced by himself , as the basis of his political life . He best understood the in- dissoluble union between virtue and happiness , between duty and ad- vantage , between the genuine maxims of an honest and ...
... pure and wise principles announced by himself , as the basis of his political life . He best understood the in- dissoluble union between virtue and happiness , between duty and ad- vantage , between the genuine maxims of an honest and ...
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... pure bliss high Heaven bestows . " HENRY LEE was born in Westmoreland County , Va . , January 29th , 1756 , and died on Cumberland Island , Georgia , March 25th , 1818. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1773 , was a Captain ...
... pure bliss high Heaven bestows . " HENRY LEE was born in Westmoreland County , Va . , January 29th , 1756 , and died on Cumberland Island , Georgia , March 25th , 1818. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1773 , was a Captain ...
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... pure . And seldom , if ever , will a sound understanding be met with in the company of a corrupt heart . In the strength of judgment lay , indeed , one chief excellence of his character . Leaving to feebler minds that splendor of genius ...
... pure . And seldom , if ever , will a sound understanding be met with in the company of a corrupt heart . In the strength of judgment lay , indeed , one chief excellence of his character . Leaving to feebler minds that splendor of genius ...
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... PURE and benign light of REVELATION ; " and when he offers to God his earnest prayer , " that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice , to love mercy , and to demean ourselves with that charity , humility ...
... PURE and benign light of REVELATION ; " and when he offers to God his earnest prayer , " that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice , to love mercy , and to demean ourselves with that charity , humility ...
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