The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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... became transiently familiar , and the soldiers could not help but feel that for all its diversity this land they marched and fought over was one land . The delegates to the Conti- nental Congress , in gathering for a common task , be ...
... became transiently familiar , and the soldiers could not help but feel that for all its diversity this land they marched and fought over was one land . The delegates to the Conti- nental Congress , in gathering for a common task , be ...
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... became a kind of second nature . Never to be defined exactly , progress was the end , science , the means . As men watched , forests became clearings , clearings , settlements ; settlements became villages and then in turn towns and ...
... became a kind of second nature . Never to be defined exactly , progress was the end , science , the means . As men watched , forests became clearings , clearings , settlements ; settlements became villages and then in turn towns and ...
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... became from then on an American tradition . Inauguration Day found the restoration of the President's House still incomplete . Some of the more extreme republicans would have preferred it left a ruin . " The destruction of the ...
... became from then on an American tradition . Inauguration Day found the restoration of the President's House still incomplete . Some of the more extreme republicans would have preferred it left a ruin . " The destruction of the ...
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