George Washington, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 776 Seiten |
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... land ourselves securely in the Virginia which honored the second George , and looked up to Walpole and Pitt as the arbiters of its fate . We live in a period of great cities , rapid com- munication , vast and varied business interests ...
... land ourselves securely in the Virginia which honored the second George , and looked up to Walpole and Pitt as the arbiters of its fate . We live in a period of great cities , rapid com- munication , vast and varied business interests ...
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... land , sometimes working alone , sometimes the owners of a few slaves . Some of these men were of the class well known since as the " " poor whites " of the South , the weaker brothers who could not resist the poison of slavery , but ...
... land , sometimes working alone , sometimes the owners of a few slaves . Some of these men were of the class well known since as the " " poor whites " of the South , the weaker brothers who could not resist the poison of slavery , but ...
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... land and to the great universities : they would make the grand tour , play a part in the fashionable soci- ety of London , and come back to their plantations fine gentlemen and scholars . Such was Colonel Byrd , in the early part of the ...
... land and to the great universities : they would make the grand tour , play a part in the fashionable soci- ety of London , and come back to their plantations fine gentlemen and scholars . Such was Colonel Byrd , in the early part of the ...
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... land and serfs , to which the Virginians themselves gave ready credence . They forgot that the land was so plentiful that it was of little value ; that slaves were the most waste- ful form of labor ; and that a failure of the tobacco ...
... land and serfs , to which the Virginians themselves gave ready credence . They forgot that the land was so plentiful that it was of little value ; that slaves were the most waste- ful form of labor ; and that a failure of the tobacco ...
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... land , as well as obliging London merchants always ready to furnish every luxury in return for the mortgage of a crop or an estate . So they gave themselves little anxiety as to the future and lived in the present , very much to their ...
... land , as well as obliging London merchants always ready to furnish every luxury in return for the mortgage of a crop or an estate . So they gave themselves little anxiety as to the future and lived in the present , very much to their ...
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