Life of Washington: A Biography, Personal, Military, and Political, Volume 1Virtue, 1860 - Presidents |
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Page 13
... by the publishers in the preparation of the engravings , when Doctor Griswold was compelled to lay aside his pen . They waited patiently for its resumption ; but , finally , influenced by a natural desire to proceed with the work.
... by the publishers in the preparation of the engravings , when Doctor Griswold was compelled to lay aside his pen . They waited patiently for its resumption ; but , finally , influenced by a natural desire to proceed with the work.
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... prepared for Sir Isaac Heard by President Washington in 1792 . † A short time before the emigration of the Washingtons , Sir William Davenant , the poet , under the patronage of the queen mother of France , had projected and organized a ...
... prepared for Sir Isaac Heard by President Washington in 1792 . † A short time before the emigration of the Washingtons , Sir William Davenant , the poet , under the patronage of the queen mother of France , had projected and organized a ...
Page 35
... preparation for his future career . His new companions quickly discovered and acknowledged the superiority of his abilities and his elevation and force of character . They yielded him the deference he had won from the younger boys on ...
... preparation for his future career . His new companions quickly discovered and acknowledged the superiority of his abilities and his elevation and force of character . They yielded him the deference he had won from the younger boys on ...
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... prepare him for his high calling , at least a discipline of his powers and passions so admirably fitted for that end as to justify our special wonder . These clerkly accomplishments , thus acquired , at the only period in which he had ...
... prepare him for his high calling , at least a discipline of his powers and passions so admirably fitted for that end as to justify our special wonder . These clerkly accomplishments , thus acquired , at the only period in which he had ...
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... preparing himself , in the camp and field of the approaching war , to command the armies of the revolution , and not improbably sink under the pestilential climate of the West Indies and the Spanish main ? Such indeed seems almost ...
... preparing himself , in the camp and field of the approaching war , to command the armies of the revolution , and not improbably sink under the pestilential climate of the West Indies and the Spanish main ? Such indeed seems almost ...
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