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... Washing- ton , the first Virginian of the name , was of Northamptonshire , and that he came from , or lived in the ... Wash- ington's descent from the Sulgrave family and therefore the cor- rectness of the theory advanced in the text ...
... Washing- ton , the first Virginian of the name , was of Northamptonshire , and that he came from , or lived in the ... Wash- ington's descent from the Sulgrave family and therefore the cor- rectness of the theory advanced in the text ...
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... Wash- ingtons , as they flash up for a moment from the dim past , and hope to get what Professor Huxley calls a " generic " picture of the race , even if the outlines be somewhat blurred and indistinct . In the North of England , in the ...
... Wash- ingtons , as they flash up for a moment from the dim past , and hope to get what Professor Huxley calls a " generic " picture of the race , even if the outlines be somewhat blurred and indistinct . In the North of England , in the ...
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... Wash- ington , " but as a matter of fact , although she lived to an advanced age , we know scarcely more about her ... Washing- ton offered no exception to the general rule . Her reading was confined to a small number of volumes ...
... Wash- ington , " but as a matter of fact , although she lived to an advanced age , we know scarcely more about her ... Washing- ton offered no exception to the general rule . Her reading was confined to a small number of volumes ...
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Henry Cabot Lodge. not even begin an attempt to get at the real Wash- ington . Weems was not a cold - blooded liar , a mere forger of anecdotes . He was simply a man destitute of historical sense , training , or morals , ready to take ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. not even begin an attempt to get at the real Wash- ington . Weems was not a cold - blooded liar , a mere forger of anecdotes . He was simply a man destitute of historical sense , training , or morals , ready to take ...
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... Wash- ington's character was formed by these sententious bits of not very profound wisdom would be absurd ; but that a series of rules which most lads would have regarded as simply dull should have been written out and pondered by this ...
... Wash- ington's character was formed by these sententious bits of not very profound wisdom would be absurd ; but that a series of rules which most lads would have regarded as simply dull should have been written out and pondered by this ...
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