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... other effect than to unite the whole coun- try in one indissoluble band against a nation which seems to be lost to every sense of virtue and those feelings which distinguish a civilized people from the most barbarous 152 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... other effect than to unite the whole coun- try in one indissoluble band against a nation which seems to be lost to every sense of virtue and those feelings which distinguish a civilized people from the most barbarous 152 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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Henry Cabot Lodge. feelings which distinguish a civilized people from the most barbarous savages . " With such thoughts he sought to make Congress appreciate the prob- able long duration of the struggle , and he bent every energy to ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. feelings which distinguish a civilized people from the most barbarous savages . " With such thoughts he sought to make Congress appreciate the prob- able long duration of the struggle , and he bent every energy to ...
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... feeling , and thus he was driven on to almost sure defeat . Everything , too , as the day of battle drew near , seemed to make against him . On August 22d the enemy began to land on Long Island , where Greene had drawn a strong line of ...
... feeling , and thus he was driven on to almost sure defeat . Everything , too , as the day of battle drew near , seemed to make against him . On August 22d the enemy began to land on Long Island , where Greene had drawn a strong line of ...
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... feelings , and saw plainly every palliation and excuse . But there was one thing which he could never appreciate nor real- ize . It was from first to last impossible for him to understand how any man could refuse to fight , or could ...
... feelings , and saw plainly every palliation and excuse . But there was one thing which he could never appreciate nor real- ize . It was from first to last impossible for him to understand how any man could refuse to fight , or could ...
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... feeling , which would finally strike home under the pressure of defeat , and bring the patriots of the legislature to sudden action , always incomplete , but still ac- tion of some sort . It must have been inexpressibly dreary work ...
... feeling , which would finally strike home under the pressure of defeat , and bring the patriots of the legislature to sudden action , always incomplete , but still ac- tion of some sort . It must have been inexpressibly dreary work ...
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