George Washington, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1917 |
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... learned lawyer and author , of Gray's Inn . About the same time we hear of Richard Washington and Philip Washington holding high places at University College , Oxford . The Sulgrave branch , however , was the most numerous and pros ...
... learned lawyer and author , of Gray's Inn . About the same time we hear of Richard Washington and Philip Washington holding high places at University College , Oxford . The Sulgrave branch , however , was the most numerous and pros ...
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... learned man , but so far as his own language could carry him he was an educated one . Thus while he developed the sterner qualities by hard work and a rough life , he did not bring back the coarse habits of the backwoods and the camp ...
... learned man , but so far as his own language could carry him he was an educated one . Thus while he developed the sterner qualities by hard work and a rough life , he did not bring back the coarse habits of the backwoods and the camp ...
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... learned by Washington from the rough teachings of inexora- ble and unconquerable facts . He received in this campaign the first taste of that severe experience which by its training developed the self - control and mastery of temper for ...
... learned by Washington from the rough teachings of inexora- ble and unconquerable facts . He received in this campaign the first taste of that severe experience which by its training developed the self - control and mastery of temper for ...
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... learned something , if not a great deal , and he demonstrated the folly of such an attempt in a manner too clear to be confuted . Meantime the Burgesses came together , and more money being voted , Dinwiddie hit on a notable plan for ...
... learned something , if not a great deal , and he demonstrated the folly of such an attempt in a manner too clear to be confuted . Meantime the Burgesses came together , and more money being voted , Dinwiddie hit on a notable plan for ...
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... learned many things in this time , and was taught much in the hard school of adversity . In the effort to conquer Frenchmen and Indians he studied the art of war , and at the same time he learned to bear with and to overcome the dulness ...
... learned many things in this time , and was taught much in the hard school of adversity . In the effort to conquer Frenchmen and Indians he studied the art of war , and at the same time he learned to bear with and to overcome the dulness ...
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