George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... gave her faithful but less titled lover an apparently incurable wound . His life having been thus early twisted and set awry , Lord Fairfax , when well past his prime , had determined finally to come to Virginia , bury himself in the ...
... gave her faithful but less titled lover an apparently incurable wound . His life having been thus early twisted and set awry , Lord Fairfax , when well past his prime , had determined finally to come to Virginia , bury himself in the ...
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... gave the name of Greenway Court . He also procured for Washington an ap- pointment as a public surveyor , which conferred authority on his surveys and provided him with regular work . Thus started , Washington toiled at his ON THE ...
... gave the name of Greenway Court . He also procured for Washington an ap- pointment as a public surveyor , which conferred authority on his surveys and provided him with regular work . Thus started , Washington toiled at his ON THE ...
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... gave the savage the slip and pressed on . It was the middle of December and cold and stormy . In crossing a river , Wash- ington fell from the raft into deep water , amid the floating ice , but fought his way out , and he and his ...
... gave the savage the slip and pressed on . It was the middle of December and cold and stormy . In crossing a river , Wash- ington fell from the raft into deep water , amid the floating ice , but fought his way out , and he and his ...
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... gave immortality to an obscure French officer by linking his name with that of his opponent , and brought Washington for the moment before the eyes of the world , which little dreamed that this Virginian colonel was destined to be one ...
... gave immortality to an obscure French officer by linking his name with that of his opponent , and brought Washington for the moment before the eyes of the world , which little dreamed that this Virginian colonel was destined to be one ...
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... gave money to his men . In August he rejoined his regiment , and renewed the vain struggle against incompetence and extravagance , and as if this were not enough , his sense of honor was wounded and his temper much irritated by the ...
... gave money to his men . In August he rejoined his regiment , and renewed the vain struggle against incompetence and extravagance , and as if this were not enough , his sense of honor was wounded and his temper much irritated by the ...
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