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... Weems created the Washington of the popular fancy . The idea grew up with the country , and became so ingrained in the popular thought that finally everybody was affected by it , and even the most stately and solemn of the Washington ...
... Weems created the Washington of the popular fancy . The idea grew up with the country , and became so ingrained in the popular thought that finally everybody was affected by it , and even the most stately and solemn of the Washington ...
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... 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 the slenderest fact and work it up for the purposes of the market until it ...
... 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 the slenderest fact and work it up for the purposes of the market until it ...
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... Weems says that his stories were told him by a lady , and " a good old gentleman , " who remem- bered the incidents ... Weems myth as to tell the colt story after the Weems manner , cannot now be deter mined THE WASHINGTONS . 43.
... Weems says that his stories were told him by a lady , and " a good old gentleman , " who remem- bered the incidents ... Weems myth as to tell the colt story after the Weems manner , cannot now be deter mined THE WASHINGTONS . 43.
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... Weems and Mr. Custis , are on their face hopelessly and ridiculously false . They are so , not merely because they have no vestige of evidence to support them , but because they are in every word and line the offspring of a period more ...
... Weems and Mr. Custis , are on their face hopelessly and ridiculously false . They are so , not merely because they have no vestige of evidence to support them , but because they are in every word and line the offspring of a period more ...
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Henry Cabot Lodge. 1740 like the personages in Weems's stories , what ever they may have done in 1790 , or at the begin- ning of the next century . These precious anecdotes belong to the age of Miss Edgeworth and Hannah More and Jane ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. 1740 like the personages in Weems's stories , what ever they may have done in 1790 , or at the begin- ning of the next century . These precious anecdotes belong to the age of Miss Edgeworth and Hannah More and Jane ...
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