George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... John Lederer said a century earlier , by mon- sters , and inhabited , as the eighteenth - century Vir- ginians very well knew , by savages and wild beasts , much more real and dangerous than the hobgob- lins of their ancestors . The ...
... John Lederer said a century earlier , by mon- sters , and inhabited , as the eighteenth - century Vir- ginians very well knew , by savages and wild beasts , much more real and dangerous than the hobgob- lins of their ancestors . The ...
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... John at Runnymede . To this aristocracy , careless and indolent , given to rough pleasures and indif- ferent to the finer and higher sides of life , the call came , as it comes to all men sooner or later , and in response they gave ...
... John at Runnymede . To this aristocracy , careless and indolent , given to rough pleasures and indif- ferent to the finer and higher sides of life , the call came , as it comes to all men sooner or later , and in response they gave ...
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... John and Lawrence , were the sons of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor , and this genealogy was adopted by Sparks and Irving , as well as by the public at large . Twenty years ago , however , Colonel Chester , by his re- searches ...
... John and Lawrence , were the sons of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor , and this genealogy was adopted by Sparks and Irving , as well as by the public at large . Twenty years ago , however , Colonel Chester , by his re- searches ...
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... John and Lawrence . There can be , how- ever , little doubt that the two emigrants came of the Sulgrave stock , although the exact connection has not been established . The identity of arms and of Christian names seems to prove them ...
... John and Lawrence . There can be , how- ever , little doubt that the two emigrants came of the Sulgrave stock , although the exact connection has not been established . The identity of arms and of Christian names seems to prove them ...
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... John Washing- ton , the first Virginian of the name , was of Northamptonshire , and that he came from , or lived in the neighborhood of , Sulgrave Manor , and therefore belonged to that family . Had he lived all his life in Yorkshire it ...
... John Washing- ton , the first Virginian of the name , was of Northamptonshire , and that he came from , or lived in the neighborhood of , Sulgrave Manor , and therefore belonged to that family . Had he lived all his life in Yorkshire it ...
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