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... words and the ultimate ideals of civilization , it is rather agreeable to turn to such a community as the eighteenth - century planters of Virginia . They lived contentedly on the acres of their fathers , and except at rare and stated ...
... words and the ultimate ideals of civilization , it is rather agreeable to turn to such a community as the eighteenth - century planters of Virginia . They lived contentedly on the acres of their fathers , and except at rare and stated ...
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... , knights and gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... , knights and gentlemen in the full sense of the word before the French Revolution , and we can detect in them here and there a marked strain of the old Norse blood , carrying with it across the centuries the wild 84 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... the facts , that have come down to us in regard to Washington's boyhood . For the former we are indebted to the illustrious Weems , and to that per sonage a few more words must be devoted . Weems THE WASHINGTONS . 39.
... the facts , that have come down to us in regard to Washington's boyhood . For the former we are indebted to the illustrious Weems , and to that per sonage a few more words must be devoted . Weems THE WASHINGTONS . 39.
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Henry Cabot Lodge. sonage a few more words must be devoted . Weems has been held up to the present age in various ways , usually , it must be confessed , of an unflattering nature , and “ mendacious " is the adjective most commonly ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. sonage a few more words must be devoted . Weems has been held up to the present age in various ways , usually , it must be confessed , of an unflattering nature , and “ mendacious " is the adjective most commonly ...
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... word , Weems was an approved mythmaker . No better example can be given than the way in which he described himself . It is believed that he preached once , and possibly oftener , to a congrega- tion which numbered Washington among its ...
... word , Weems was an approved mythmaker . No better example can be given than the way in which he described himself . It is believed that he preached once , and possibly oftener , to a congrega- tion which numbered Washington among its ...
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