An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army, Through the Revolutionary War; and the First President of the United StatesThomas & Sturtevant, Sold by Thomas and Andrews, 1807 - 552 من الصفحات |
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... conduct me up Jackson's river , along the range of forts . of forts . With this small company of irregulars , with whom order , regularity , circum- spection and vigilance were matters of derision and contempt , we set out , and by the ...
... conduct me up Jackson's river , along the range of forts . of forts . With this small company of irregulars , with whom order , regularity , circum- spection and vigilance were matters of derision and contempt , we set out , and by the ...
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... conduct , that it is with pleasure I receive reproof when reproof is due , because no person can be readier to accuse me , than I am to acknowledge an errour when I have committed it ; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime , when I ...
... conduct , that it is with pleasure I receive reproof when reproof is due , because no person can be readier to accuse me , than I am to acknowledge an errour when I have committed it ; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime , when I ...
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... conduct towards me , that some person as well in- clined to detract , but better skilled in the art of de- traction than the author of the above stupid scandal , has made free with my character . For I cannot sup- pose that malice so ...
... conduct towards me , that some person as well in- clined to detract , but better skilled in the art of de- traction than the author of the above stupid scandal , has made free with my character . For I cannot sup- pose that malice so ...
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... conduct to your Hon- our , with such ungentlemanly freedom as the let- ter implies ? Your condescension herein will be ac- knowledged a singular favour . " Soon after this transaction , Mr. Dinwiddie left the government , and Mr. Blair ...
... conduct to your Hon- our , with such ungentlemanly freedom as the let- ter implies ? Your condescension herein will be ac- knowledged a singular favour . " Soon after this transaction , Mr. Dinwiddie left the government , and Mr. Blair ...
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... conduct of our leaders , if not actuated by su- periour orders , is tempered with something - I do not care to give a name to . Nothing now but a miracle can bring this campaign to a happy issue . ” Mentioning the arguments he had ...
... conduct of our leaders , if not actuated by su- periour orders , is tempered with something - I do not care to give a name to . Nothing now but a miracle can bring this campaign to a happy issue . ” Mentioning the arguments he had ...
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