Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 1Virtue, 1860 - Presidents |
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Page 38
... letters , books , or papers in company ; but when there is a necessity for doing it , you must ask leave . Come not near the books or writings of any one so as to read them , unasked ; also , look not nigh when another is writing a letter ...
... letters , books , or papers in company ; but when there is a necessity for doing it , you must ask leave . Come not near the books or writings of any one so as to read them , unasked ; also , look not nigh when another is writing a letter ...
Page 52
... LETTER OTHER EXPEDI- TIONS MANNER IN WHICH HIS SURVEYS WERE EXECUTED - PECULIAR ADVAN- TAGES DERIVED FROM THEM BY HIM - HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE BACK- WOODSMEN AND INDIANS — ACCURACY OF HIS TOPOGRAPHICAL ESTIMATES . - Ir would be ...
... LETTER OTHER EXPEDI- TIONS MANNER IN WHICH HIS SURVEYS WERE EXECUTED - PECULIAR ADVAN- TAGES DERIVED FROM THEM BY HIM - HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE BACK- WOODSMEN AND INDIANS — ACCURACY OF HIS TOPOGRAPHICAL ESTIMATES . - Ir would be ...
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... letter written to a friend , while he was engaged on one of his surveying tours , which , though its details are of a homely kind , brings him before us in all the truth of real life . " Yours , " he says , " gave me the more pleasure ...
... letter written to a friend , while he was engaged on one of his surveying tours , which , though its details are of a homely kind , brings him before us in all the truth of real life . " Yours , " he says , " gave me the more pleasure ...
Page 84
... letter was not delivered until the second evening afterwards , and in the meanwhile Washington was careful to observe and record every thing of interest connected with the place , and to obtain all the information possible respecting ...
... letter was not delivered until the second evening afterwards , and in the meanwhile Washington was careful to observe and record every thing of interest connected with the place , and to obtain all the information possible respecting ...
Page 85
... letter of the governor of Virginia to the governor of Canada , to whom , he observed , " it better belongs than to me to set forth the evidence and reality of the rights of the king , my master , upon the land situated along the Ohio ...
... letter of the governor of Virginia to the governor of Canada , to whom , he observed , " it better belongs than to me to set forth the evidence and reality of the rights of the king , my master , upon the land situated along the Ohio ...
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